paling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪlɪŋ/

Verb

paling

1. present participle of pale

Noun

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,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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^[4], addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,^[5] London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,^[6]

     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,^[7]

     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.
   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118,^[8]

     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.

Alternative forms

• pailing

Translations

stick

• Finnish: paalu (fi), aitapylväs
• French: pieu (fr) m
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• Maori: kāwāwā, tīwatawata, wāwā
• Russian: кол (ru) m (kol)

fence

• Catalan: palissada f, estacada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍籬／围篱 (zh) (wéilí), 围篱 (zh) (wéilí)

• Finnish: paaluaita
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• Japanese: 柵 (ja) (さく, saku)
• Russian: частоко́л (ru) m (častokól)
• Scottish Gaelic: callaid f

Anagrams

• Galpin

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.lɪŋ/

Noun

paling (plural palinge, diminutive palinkie)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ling
• Rhymes: -aːlɪŋ

Noun

paling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje n)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal

Derived terms

• palingvisser
• palingvisserij

Descendants

• Afrikaans: paling

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Malay

Noun

paling

1. majority

Synonyms

• para

Adjective

paling

1. top; greatest, super
2. mainstream

Adverb

paling

1. most, very

Synonyms

• terlalu
• sungguh