paling

English

Verb

paling

1. Present participle of pale.

Noun

paling (plural palings)

1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
2. A fence made of palings.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

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

Translations

stick

• Finnish: säle (fi)
• French: pieu (fr) m

• Russian: кол (ru) (kol) m

fence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍籬 (cmn), 围篱 (cmn) (wéilí)

• Finnish: säleaita (fi)

• Japanese: 柵 (ja) (さく, saku)
• Russian: частокол (ru) (častokól) m
• Scottish Gaelic: callaid (gd) f

---

Dutch

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

paling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal