About The Word Paling
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Paling
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What's The Definition Of Paling?
[n] a fence made of upright pickets
[adj] losing color; "the paling photographs" Synonyms | Synonyms for Paling: decreasing | fading | picket fence Related Terms | Find terms related to Paling: See Also | fence | fencing | pale | picket Paling In Webster's Dictionary \Pal"ing\, n.
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.]
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