Dictionary

paling

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈpeɪlɪŋ/

Verb

present participle of pale#English|pale

Noun

paling (plural palings)

A pointed stick used to make a fence.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 20, p. 117,
  The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]
- 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (novel), New York: Grove Press, 2014, Chapter 6,
  The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.
A fence made of palings.
- 1789, Alderman Le Mesurier^{[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le_Mesurier_(Alderney)]}, addressing the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, in The Parliamentary Register, London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,
  Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), Chapter 12, page 142,
  The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
(Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118,
  He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.

Translations

French: pieu
Russian: кол

Translations

Russian: частоко́л

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005