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# paling

«paling» in Mova's school dictionary: **part of a fence** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a paling, palings); verb form of «pale» (pale, pales, paled, paling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pointed wooden stake that is part of a fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#m1)

2) A fence made of such stakes (palings). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#m2)

3) «Paling» is also the -ing form of «to pale», to become pale or less bright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In older stories and The Wind in the Willows, fences of palings surround gardens and fields. In Australia, a «paling fence» is a common wooden garden fence.

### examples

- The cat climbed over the palings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x1)
- (Australia) Dad fixed the paling fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x2)
- Her face was paling with fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x3)
- The sky was paling as dawn came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x4)
- The Mole squeezed through a gap in the palings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x5)
- A paling had fallen in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x6)
- Fresh and fragrant roses hung over the little palings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/#x7)

### note

From «pale» (a stake). Also the phrase «beyond the pale» (outside the limits of what is acceptable).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.