Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a row of upright pointed sticks forming a fence; a pale.
- noun Pointed sticks used in making fences; pales.
- noun A fence made of pales or pickets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pales or stakes collectively.
- noun A fence formed by connecting pointed vertical stakes by horizontal rails above and below; a picket fence; hence, in general, that which incloses or fences in; in the plural, pales collectively as forming a fence.
- noun Stripes on cloth resembling pales.
- noun The putting of the stripes called pales on cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
- noun obsolete The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
- noun [Eng.] one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
pale . - noun A pointed
stick used to make a fence. - noun A
fence made of palings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fence made of upright pickets
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Examples
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I sometimes, indeed, receive a male visitor, at the other side of the paling, which is my grille; but to change my way of life is a dream that does not trouble me.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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It was surrounded on three sides by a dyke of stones and sod, topped by a gray and uncertain paling.
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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Next to your lordly wall, in dignity of enclosure, comes your close-set wooden paling, which is more objectionable, because it commonly means enclosure on a larger scale than people want.
The Two Paths John Ruskin 1859
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I sometimes, indeed, receive a male visitor, at the other side of the paling, which is my grille; but to change my way of life is a dream that does not trouble me.
Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Senar ditandai dari yang paling tipis ke yang paling tebal, artinya senar 1 itu adalah senar yang paling tipis alias paling bawah, sedangkan senar 6 adalah senar yang paling tebal alias yang paling atas.
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Enough ..... interest in her is certainly "paling".
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Before it is a little garden with flowers, and a paling which is painted.
The Daisy 1909
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Hawkins put up the first "paling" fence that had ever adorned the village; and he did not stop there, but whitewashed it.
The Gilded Age, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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Hawkins put up the first "paling" fence that had ever adorned the village; and he did not stop there, but whitewashed it.
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Her weapon is the nasty, snide attack -- on Obama for "paling around with terrorists," on all liberals as un-American, on critics as "limp, impotent members of of the old boys club" who lack "cajones."
Mark Green: Her Candidacy Is Over -- Palin's "Brainwashing" and "Joe Welch" Moment Mark Green 2011
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Used, at least, in the Playstation 2 game Final Fantasy XII to refer to an impenetrable magic shield.
July 25, 2011