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Webster 1913 Edition
Paling
Pal′ing
,Noun.
1.
Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the
paling
of order and decorum. De Quincey.
2.
The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Paling board
, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards.
[Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Paling
PA'LING
,ppr.
PA'LING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
paling
paling
English
Verb
paling
- present participle of pale
Noun
paling (plural palings)
- A pointed stick used to make a fence.
- A fence made of palings.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
- The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
Translations
stick
fence