Hypertext Webster Gateway: "paling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pale \Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Paling}.]
To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Paling \Pal"ing\, n.
1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a
limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and decorum.
--De Quincey.
2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the
stripes themselves. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Paling board}, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a
log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
paling
adj : losing color; "the paling photographs" [syn: {fading}]
n : a fence made of upright pickets [syn: {picket fence}]
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