palletise

UK/ˈpælɪtaɪz/US/ˈpælɪtaɪz/

verbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — pallet sits at #11,201Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

To palletise is to load goods onto a wooden platform for handling. Palletise the order, palletised freight, fully palletised.

It is what made mechanical handling possible, since a forklift can move a tonne in one lift instead of a man moving boxes. Standard sizes differ by continent, so goods palletised in Europe do not fit an American rack.

Definitions of palletise

1verbpalletiseTo load goods onto a wooden platform for handling.C1
“The warehouse workers palletise the boxes so a forklift can load them onto the lorry.”

palletise is a loading.

Also accepted in games: palletize

Where it comes from

From pallet plus -ise, with pallet from Old French palette, a small blade or platform.

Latin
palea — chaff
Old French
paille — straw, chaff
Anglo-Norman
paillete — bundle of straw
Middle English
paillet
English
pallet
English, today
palletise

From pallet + ise. pallet comes from Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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