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paling

[ pey-ling ]

noun

  1. Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  2. a pale or picket for a fence.
  3. pales pale collectively.
  4. the act of building a fence with pales. pale.


paling

/ ˈɪɪŋ /

noun

  1. a fence made of pales
  2. pales collectively
  3. a single pale
  4. the act of erecting pales
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of paling1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; pale 2, -ing 1
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He looked at Anya, face paling, then back at the torchbearer.

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What, you might ask, prompted this remark from the paling former personality?

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No medicine is risk-free, but complications are rare and most are not serious, paling in comparison with the potential harm caused by Covid, even to younger people.

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I absolutely must go in by myself, though I hate being stuck up in the barouche-landau without a companion; but Augusta, I believe, with her own good-will, would never stir beyond the park paling.’

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“Yes, well, I meant, ah, more for personal emergencies,” Gwystyl explained, paling.

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