paling

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
    — The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]
  2. 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.
  3. A fence made of galvanized sheeting. Caribbean
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of pale form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

palings plural pailing alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
paling board

词源

词源 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
词源 2
From Middle English palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale + -ing.
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