paling
paling is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- balustrade
- barricade
- barrier
- bent
- case
- circumscribe
- circumvallation
- cordon
- corral
- defense
- dike
- dingle
- ditch
- door
- dyke
- enceinte
- envelope
- espalier
- fence
- fold
- fosse
- gate
- gateway
- girdle
- hatch
- hedge
- inclose
- inclosure
- moat
- net
- paddock
- pale
- park
- pen
- pound
- prison
- quickset
- rail
- railing
- receptacle
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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