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▪ I. paling, vbl. n.1|ˈpeɪlɪŋ|
[f. pale v.1 + -ing1.]
†1. Decoration with ‘pales’ or vertical stripes.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋343 The cost of embrowdynge,..barrynge, owndynge, palynge.
2. The action of constructing a fence, or of enclosing a place, with pales; fencing.
1469Paston Lett. II. 337 They that ben possessioners..shulde payle certeine of the Parke of Weverston; and by cause this is nat performyd..thoo that ben possessioners shall..be amersid. And it is agreed that Sir William Yelverton, Sir Thomas Hoo..wolle pay the amercyment, and to delyver the said Duchesse possession of the said service and palyng. 1543Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §6 For..pailing, railing, or enclosing of Parkes [etc.]. 1667Duchess of Newcastle Life Dk. of N. (1886) II. 153 The..paling, stubbing, hedging, &c., of his grounds and parks. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 212 Much us'd in Essex..; but in few other Countreys, except for Paleing.
3. concr.
a. Wood prepared for or made into pales; pales collectively; fencing.
1788Trans. Soc. Arts VI. 22 The firs answer for..paling for fences. c1830Carlyle Four Fables iv, Thou art felled and sawed into paling. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §181. 62 When park paling of cleft pales is made.
b. A fence made of pales. (with a and pl.)
1558Nottingham Rec. IV. 120 The palyng for the seyd pynfold. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. iii. 38 It is not every field..which a gentleman pleases to surround with a wall or paling..that is thereby constituted a legal park. 1814Scott Wav. lx, Waverley groped his way the best he could along a small paling. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 425 Split oaken planks to be used for strong palings.
c. Each of the pales of which a fence is made; usually in pl. = a set of pales, a fence.
1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. i, A rough..lane which skirted..the moss-grown palings..of the park. 1861Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne (1888) 195 He plunged..over some palings into a field.
4. attrib., as paling board, paling fence.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 110 Plate xxx, Two different sorts of paling fences. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 282 A paling Board is the outside or sappy part of a tree, sawed off from the four sides, in order to make the remaining part square. 1843Amer. Pioneer II. 308 A strong body occupied the yard of Ebenezer Zane..using the paling fence as a cover. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age v. 60 Hawkins put up the first ‘paling’ fence that had ever adorned the village. 1894R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus i. 179 The hedge and paling bounds. 1901Merwin & Webster Calumet ‘K’ v. 68 They were standing..near the paling fence which bounded the C. and S.C. right of way. 1925W. J. Bryan Mem. 17 Our yard was enclosed in the old-fashioned paling fence with a baseboard about a foot high.
▪ II. paling, vbl. n.2
[f. pale v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of becoming or turning pale.
c1410Lydg. Life Our Lady (MS. Ashm. 39 lf. 47), For in here face alwey was the blode, With oute palynge or eny drawynge doune. 1887G. Meredith Ballads & P. 158 Like the paling of the dawn-star.
▪ III. paling, ppl. a.1
[f. pale v.1 + -ing2.]
Enclosing, surrounding.
c1630Trag. Rich. II (1870) 34 That dost allowe thy paleing flatterers To guild them selues with others misseryes.
▪ IV. paling, ppl. a.2
[f. pale v.2 + -ing2.]
Becoming or turning pale.
1623Middleton More Dissemblers Besides Women i. iv, Your nice paling physicking gentlefolks. 1832J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 41 The sun looks downward with a paling light. 189919th Cent. Nov. 817 By the dual light of paling moon and rising sun. |