name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
paling
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpeɪlɪŋ/
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rhymes with -eɪlɪŋ
noun
Meaning 2
A pointed stick used to make a fence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A fence made of palings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 4
A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Caribbean
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verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of pale
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 6
a fence made of upright pickets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: picket fence
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Broader terms: fence, fencing
History
Etymology
Variant of Palin.
From Middle English palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кол (kol) — stick
- Finnish: paalu — stick
- Finnish: aitapylväs — stick
- French: pieu — stick
- Māori: kāwāwā — stick
- Māori: tīwatawata — stick
- Māori: wāwā — stick
- Occitan: pal — stick
- Russian: кол (kol) — stick
- Ukrainian: кіл (kil) — stick
- Ukrainian: паля (palja) — stick
- Bulgarian: палисада (palisada) — fence
- Catalan: palissada — fence
- Catalan: estacada — fence
- Chinese Mandarin: 圍籬 /围篱 (wéilí) — fence
- Finnish: paaluaita — fence
- Japanese: 柵 (saku) — fence
- Occitan: palenc — fence
- Occitan: palenca — fence
- Occitan: palissada — fence
- Occitan: palencada — fence
- Russian: частоко́л (častokól) — fence
- Scottish Gaelic: callaid — fence
- Ukrainian: частокіл (častokil) — fence
- Ukrainian: палісад (palisad) — fence