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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One of a row of upright pointed sticks forming a fence; a pale.
  2. n. Pointed sticks used in making fences; pales.
  3. n. A fence made of pales or pickets.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Pales or stakes collectively.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. Stripes on cloth resembling pales.
  4. n. The putting of the stripes called pales on cloth.

Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of pale.
  2. n. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
  3. n. A fence made of palings.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
  2. n. obsolete The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a fence made of upright pickets

Examples

  • “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

  • “It was surrounded on three sides by a dyke of stones and sod, topped by a gray and uncertain paling.”

    Rainbow Valley

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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.”

    The Huffington Post: Mark Green: Her Candidacy Is Over -- Palin's "Brainwashing" and "Joe Welch" Moment

  • “Golkar mengklaim bahwa partai golkar adalah partai yg paling berhasil mereformasi diri.”

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  • “In the rear, a gate through a low paling fence led to a snug, squat bungalow, built in the California Spanish style and seeming to have been compounded directly from the landscape of which it was so justly a part.”

    THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. limit
  1. inclosure
  1. fence

hypernyms (2)

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  1. fence
  1. fencing

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. flake
  1. palise
  1. paled
  1. impalement
  1. loop
  1. pale

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  • Michael Leonard Used, at least, in the Playstation 2 game Final Fantasy XII to refer to an impenetrable magic shield. Jul 25, 2011

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