A tool, as for mixing clay, or for gilding; a detent of an escapement ( see illus. under ESCAPEMENT); a painters' palet.
A bed of straw.
The doctor knelt by the pallet next to mine- that of the man who had groaned. – Who Goes There? by Blackwood Ketcham Benson
Joe made a pallet for Emma and one for Barbara, and then he and Tad rolled up in their blankets and lay down a few feet away. – The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard