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pallet
in
An Ember in the Ashes
(Edited)
- Inside, it's just wide enough to fit a rope pallet and a crate that serves as a side table.
p. 139.3pallet = a simple, austere bed
- Izzi slips in and sits at the end of my pallet, small enough that she doesn't need to stoop to avoid hitting her head.
p. 183.6
- At night, I toss restlessly in the tiny box that is my room, the rope of my pallet digging into my back, the roof and walls so close that I can't breathe.
p. 220.3
- But she doesn't, and instead I lay in my pallet, staring at the pitted stone of my roof, forcing myself not to imagine Darin suffering at the hands of the Martials, trying to figure out a way to explain my failure to Mazen.
p. 297.6
- I lay Lath down on the pallet inside with aching slowness, one limb at a time.
p. 311.9
- Aspirant Veturius, delivering me from my murderer so I can die on a slave's pallet instead of a stone floor.
p. 315.3
- She kneels beside my pallet.
p. 316.8
- My mind is like tar, my body racked with dull pain, but I'm aware enough to know that if I don't rise from this pallet, I really am dead.
p. 324.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(pallet as in: a shipping pallet) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
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(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)
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(3)
(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.