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pallet
in
Ancillary Justice
(Edited)

I made a pallet of blankets I found in Strigan's bedroom, then stripped Seivarden and laid her on it, and covered her with more blankets.
p. 40.5 *

pallet = a simple, austere bed
Bed was the pallet of cushions and blankets beside the bench, where she sat.
p. 74.5
Seivarden lay too quiet on her pallet—surely she had heard the sound as well.
p. 75.1
She shrugged toward Seivarden, slack and motionless on the pallet.
p. 78.2
Seivarden came noisily out of the bathroom and sank back onto her pallet, hands trembling, breathing quick and shallow.
p. 82.4
She dropped, falling backward onto her pallet, blood pouring from her nose, and lay unmoving.
p. 86.3
The Seven Issa who had accompanied us back to Lieutenant Awn's house slept on a pallet on the ground floor.
p. 89.3
We left the infirmary, the girl apparently not even aware of my presence, or Seivarden's, where she still lay on her pallet.
p. 106.7
Seivarden had by now returned to her pallet on the floor and sat, knees drawn up, arms tight around her legs as if she were holding them back and it took work.
p. 127.2
She grabbed a blanket off her pallet and wrapped it around her shoulders, and stood, still shivering.
p. 135.3
I walked slowly down a corridor lined with corrective-swathed injured lying on hastily made pallets, or encased in pods that would hold them suspended until the medics could get to them.
p. 370.9

pallets = simple, austere beds

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)
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.