Sallet vs Pallet - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sallet and pallet

is that sallet is (historical) a type of light spherical helmet or sallet can be while pallet is a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage or pallet can be a straw bed or pallet can be (heraldiccharge) a narrow vertical strip or pallet can be (painting).

sallet

English

(wikipedia sallet)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) salade, from (etyl) celada, thought to be from (etyl) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) A type of light spherical helmet

* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.

At Hampton Court, sallets for archers on horseback, sallets with grates, and old sallets with vizards: At Windsor, salettes and skulls: At Calais, saletts with vysars and bevers, and salets with bevers.

Synonyms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

(en noun)

* 1602 : , act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383

I remember one said

there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter

savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indict

the author of affection, but called it an honest method,

as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more

handsome than fine.

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pallet
English
(wikipedia pallet)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) palet, from (etyl) palete, from (etyl) pallr
Noun
(en noun)
a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

(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 equipmentJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .

(military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Derived terms
* palletizer
Etymology 2
From the (etyl) paillet, from (etyl)
Noun
(en noun)
A straw bed.

(By extension from above) A makeshift bed.

Etymology 3
(etyl) palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.
Noun
(en noun)
(heraldiccharge) A narrow vertical strip.

Etymology 4

Noun
(en noun)
(painting)

* (Robert Southey)

The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"

* 1860 , Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)

For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure

A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.

A potter's wheel.

(gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

(gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

(brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

(Knight)

(engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

(engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

(Knight)

(horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.

(music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

(zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the .

A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
(Webster 1913)
References
* The Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, Oxford University Press * Notes:
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