paling [
'peiliŋ]
n. 木栅, 围篱
paling[ noun ]
a fence made of upright pickets
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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.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
Paling \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.]
- And the paling greenback has helped U.S. car sales by driving up the price of foreign autos.
- Their palates are paling from Cajun fish, blackened.