All 10 Uses of

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Beloved, by Toni Morrison

It took her a year to choose—a long, tough year of thrashing on pallets eaten up with dreams of her.†
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All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl—the one who took Baby Suggs' place after Halle bought her with five years of Sundays.†
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I didn't want it to be just me moving over a bit of pallet full of corn husks.†
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It went on that way and might have stayed that way except one evening, after supper, after Sethe, he lay on a pallet in the storeroom and didn't want to be there.†
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A pallet is in the middle of the floor covered with newspaper and a blanket at the foot.†
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Darkness or not, she moves rapidly around, reaching, touching cobwebs, cheese, slanting shelves, the pallet interfering with each step.†
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She sits down on the pallet and, laughing, lies back looking at the cracklights above.†
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The damp cellar was fairly warm, but there was no light lighting the pallet or the washbasin or the nail from which a man's clothes could be hung.†
Part 2

There is the pallet spread with old newspapers gnawed at the edges by mice.†
Part 3

Definitions:

(1) (pallet as in: a shipping pallet)
a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
(2) (pallet as in: a sleeping pallet)
a simple, austere bed (such as a straw-filled mattress or temporary bed made on the floor for a child)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, pallet can refer to a tool or part of a machine. It may also be found as a less common spelling for palette--a flat board or tray artists use to mix paints and to hold them as they paint.