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.]

 

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