paling

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪlɪŋ/

paling

1. present participle of pale

paling (plural palings)

1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 20, p. 117,

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

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, 2014, Chapter 6,

     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.

2. A fence made of palings.
   • 1789, Alderman Le Mesurier, addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register, 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.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), Chapter 12, page 142,

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

3. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.[1]
   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118,

     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.

• pailing

• Galpin

From Dutch paling, from Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.lɪŋ/

paling (plural palinge, diminutive palinkie)

1. eel

• aal

From Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ling
• Rhymes: -aːlɪŋ

paling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje n)

1. eel

• aal

• palingvisser
• palingvisserij

• Afrikaans: paling

paling

1. majority

• para

paling

1. top; greatest, super
2. mainstream

paling

1. most, very

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