LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of pale
A pointed stick used to make a fence.
The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]
A fence made of palings.
1789, Alderman Le Mesurier), addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,ᴴᵃⁿˢᵃʳᵈ London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172, 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.
A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
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.
A surname.
From Middle English palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale + -ing.
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