Meaning

present participle and gerund of pale.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of pale
2. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
3. A fence made of palings.
4. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.

Example Sentences

The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]

The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.

1789, Alderman Le Mesurier), addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,ᴴᵃⁿˢᵃʳᵈ London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172, Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.

The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs, and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large shady square, without any palings, and with marble-paved walks.

He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.

Word Forms

• palings
• pailing

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When Should You Use Paling?

Use paling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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