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cargo pallet

n. (context nautical English) a flat wooden tray used for hoisting cargo into and out of a ship's hold

Usage examples of "cargo pallet".

The rapid movement of something large in the maw of the cargo door had escaped his notice, but as it departed the aircraft and seemed to hang in midair for a split second, the F-15 pilot realized it was a cargo pallet and it was descending directly toward his cockpit.

All the furniture-the futons, the cargo pallet, the experimental cinderblock furniture-has been pushed up against the walls.

All the furniture -- the futons, the cargo pallet, the experimental cinderblock furniture -- has been pushed up against the walls.

Shaftoe and the other Marines have always known Station Alpha as a mysterious claque of pencil-necked swabbies who hung out on the roof of a building in the International Settlement in a shack of knot-pocked cargo pallet planks with antennas sticking out of it every which way.

Worn-out shuttle main engines, too beat-up to be human-rated anymore, are being recycled: you can make a pretty useful throwaway booster out of a shuttle tailplane and a cargo pallet.

Within minutes, the first cargo pallet from the Enterprise had materialized and twenty of Scott's first team swarmed over it like bees constructing a hive.

This tilted boarding against which I'm leaning as I catch my breath was perhaps once a cargo pallet, lashed to the heaving deck of some steamer on the Boreal Seas.