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Homophones
palate
palette
pallette
pellet (possibly, depending on dialect or accent)

Pronunciation
IPA|/�pælɪt/ or IPA|/�pæl�t/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ælɪt|-ælɪt

Etymology 1
From the ME. palet, from the OF. palete, from ON. pallr

Noun
en-noun

1. a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked or stored.

#Military A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment<ref name="JP102">Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).</ref>.
#Military (DOD only)463L pallet � An 88� x 108� aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft<ref name="JP102"/>.

Translations
trans-top|a portable platform
German: Palette f
Swedish: pall c
Finnish: kuormalava
trans-mid
Norwegian: t-|no|pall|m
Spanish: paleta
French: Palette
trans-bottom

Etymology 2
From the ME. paillet, from :w:Anglo-Norman|Anglo-Norman paillette (bundle of straw), from paille (straw), from L. palea (chaff).

Noun
en-noun

1. A straw bed.
2. (By extension from above) A makeshift bed.

Etymology 3
L. palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.

Noun
en-noun

#heraldry A narrow vertical strip.

References
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
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