Definitions for: Paling

[n] a fence made of upright pickets
[adj] losing color; "the paling photographs"

Webster (1913) Definition: Pal"ing, n.
1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a
limit; an inclosure.

They moved within the paling of order and decorum.
--De Quincey.

2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the
stripes themselves. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a
log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

Synonyms: decreasing, fading, picket fence

See Also: fence, fencing, pale, picket

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