PALING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paling mean? 

• PALING (noun)
  The noun PALING has 1 sense:

1. a fence made of upright pickets

  Familiarity information: PALING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fence made of upright pickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

paling; picket fence

Hypernyms ("paling" is a kind of...):

fence; fencing (a barrier that serves to enclose an area)

Meronyms (parts of "paling"):

pale; picket (a wooden strip forming part of a fence)

 Context examples 

As the circumstances of my fall came back into my confused brain, I looked up in terror, expecting to see that dreadful head silhouetted against the paling sky.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or opening, too strong to pull down without time and labour and too open to shelter the besiegers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Many a time has Selina said, when she has been going to Bristol, 'I really cannot get this girl to move from the house. 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.'

(Emma, by Jane Austen)