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  • noun Plural form of pallet.

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Examples

  • The wheel is to have 15 teeth, with pallets spanning 3 teeth or 2½ spaces, making the angle from lock to lock =  360 ÷ 15 × 2½  =  60°, the interval from tooth to tooth is 360 ÷ 15  =  24°; divided by 2 pallets  =  24 ÷ 2  =  12° for width of tooth, pallet and drop; drop is to be 1½°, the tooth is to be ¾ the width of the pallet, making a tooth of

    An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner

  • The firm taught children at the elementary school how to save simple wooden pallets from the incinerator and craft their very own bird abodes!

    Brookwood Sustainability Fair Teaches Students how to UPCYCLE Pallets into Birdhouses | Inhabitat 2010

  • Eric Kayne for The Wall Street Journal Store empoyee Corey Jeanes labels pallets in the warehouse section of the store.

    Wal-Mart's Latin Endeavor 2009

  • While taking a walk on a cold and windy afternoon last weekend, I spotted a couple of things―I believe they are called pallets―discarded on a wooded slope.

    Archive 2006-01-01 AYDIN 2006

  • At the far end of the pallets was a smaller pallet covered with a green canvas tarp.

    The Lions of Lucerne Brad Thor 2002

  • Tico Enterprises now hires them to produce a product called Soap Savers, a kitchen and bathroom gadget made out of recycled wooden warehouse pallets, which is sold in Body Shop stores nationwide.

    Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994

  • Tico Enterprises now hires them to produce a product called Soap Savers, a kitchen and bathroom gadget made out of recycled wooden warehouse pallets, which is sold in Body Shop stores nationwide.

    Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994

  • The tooth, therefore, would be ¾ the width of pallets, which is very good indeed.

    An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner

  • "We've got 24 pallets, which is basically a semi-truck load," he said.

    McAlester News-Capital, McAlester, OK Homepage 2010

  • 'If you're dealing with lots of different products you wouldn't necessarily go for double deep, but many of our pallets are the same, so this combination works well,' he added.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

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