'Paling' definitions:
Definition of 'paling'
(from WordNet)
noun
A fence made of upright pickets [syn: picket fence, paling]
Definition of 'Paling'
From: GCIDE
- Paling \Pal"ing\, n.
- 1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. [1913 Webster]
- They moved within the paling of order and decorum. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Paling'
From: GCIDE
- Pale \Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paled (p[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Paling.] To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier. [1913 Webster]
- Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]