pallets

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The locking faces of the pallets were arcs of circles struck from the pallet centers.

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  1. noun A projection on a machine part, such as a pawl for controlling the motion of a ratchet wheel in a watch escapement, that engages the teeth of a ratchet wheel to convert reciprocating motion to rotary motion or vice versa.
  2. noun A wooden, shovellike potter's tool used for mixing and shaping clay.
  3. noun A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

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  • It led straight to one of the objects on the floor pallets, a dome of carved rock. —  The Last Oracle by James Rollins
  • The air smelt of machine oil and of the newly sawn timber used for the pallets, or like machine-gun oil and coffin wood. —  Scoundrel by Bernard Cornwell
  • The profit gained by having RFIDs on pallets, after an investment of over five hundred million dollars, was only on the order of just above six million dollars, which is very bad Return On Investment (ROI) for a very large company 3. —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction And Fact - 2007 - Issue 03 - March (v1.0) [lit]
  • If there were a struggle for control of the waterfront, Gyp O'Fearna was like to be in the thick of the fight And so it proved After at first getting a few blank looks—some of which might well have been willed ignorance, the clannishness of the docks, unready to trust strangers—I was eventually directed over to Pier 86, just below the passenger terminal, where a crew was off-loading cargo pallets from a Dutch-flagged freighter. —  AHMM,June2007
  • At Patrick Farms, industry - and customer-specific labels for cases, pallets, and RPCs are generated by the TraceGains system at the packing location, ensuring that any requirements to include real time information, such as pack / harvest date or field location data on the label is accommodated with no additional labor for the line. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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