• Paling

    Verb

    1. Present participle of pale

    Full definition of paling

    Noun

    paling

    (plural palings)
    1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
    2. A fence made of palings.
      • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
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