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noun

Paling n.

Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. "They moved within the paling of order and decorum."

The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. (Obs.)

Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. (Eng.)

verb

Pale v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. "The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire."

Pale v. t. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. "(Your isle, which stands) ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters."

Pale v. i. (past & past part. paled; pres. part. paling) To turn pale; to lose color or luster. "Apt to pale at a trodden worm."

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Etymology of 'Paling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Paling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dutch House—a peculiar structure dating from the earliest colonial time, composed of bricks that had been painted yellow, crowned with a gable that was pointed out to strangers, defended by a rickety wooden paling and standing sidewise to the street. It was occupied by a primary school for children of both sexes, kept or rather let go, by a demonstrative lady of whom Isabel's chief recollection was that her hair was fastened with strange bedroomy combs ...

— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James

... decaying "mansion" stood upon the main street of Elmville within a few feet of its rickety paling-fence. Every morning the Governor would descend the steps with extreme care and deliberation—on account of his rheumatism—and then the click of his gold-headed cane would be heard as he slowly proceeded up the rugged brick sidewalk. He was ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... panoplied for fight, Moving before the vision gorgeously; Then shamed with Battle's gloom the paling Night, Upon the ...

— Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems • James Avis Bartley

... porticus of the Madeleine, on the summit of the great flight of steps which, rising above the railings, dominates the Place. Before him was the Rue Royale dipping down to the expanse of the Place de la Concorde, where rose the obelisk and the pair of plashing fountains. And, farther yet, the paling colonnade of the Chamber of Deputies bounded the horizon. It was a vista of sovereign grandeur under that pale sky over which twilight was slowly stealing, and which seemed to broaden the thoroughfares, throw back the edifices, and lend them ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... himself; everything seemed closed against him in this great city. It was not so at home on Kennedy Square. Its fence, was a shackly, moss-covered, sagging old fence, intertwined with honeysuckles, full of holes and minus many a paling; where he could have found a dozen places to crawl through. He had done so only a few weeks before with Sue in a mad frolic across the Square. Besides, why should the constable speak to him at all? He knew all about the hour of ...

— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

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