Definitions for palings

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palings pal·ing

Spelling: [pey-ling]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ lɪŋ/

Palings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in palings (agilnps).

Definitions for palings

noun

1. Also called paling fence. picket fence.
2. a pale or picket for a fence.
3. pales collectively.
4. the act of building a fence with pales.
5. a stake or picket, as of a fence.
6. an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.
7. an enclosed area.
8. limits; bounds:
9. a district or region within designated bounds.
10. (initial capital letter). Also called English Pale, Irish Pale. a district in eastern Ireland included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors.
11. an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon.
12. Shipbuilding. a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction.

Idioms

1. beyond the pale, beyond the limits of propriety, courtesy, protection, safety, etc.:

adjective

1. light-colored or lacking in color: lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.:
2. of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray:
3. not bright or brilliant; dim:
4. faint or feeble; lacking vigor:

verb (used with object)

1. to make pale.
2. to enclose with pales; fence.
3. to encircle or encompass.

verb (used without object)

1. to become pale:
2. to seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else:

Origin of palings

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at pale², -ing¹

Examples for palings

The stars were paling, but the day had not yet dawned, when there came a knock at the door.

The crimson, however, was leaving his face and the said face was paling rapidly.

Dawn was paling the blue-black sky as the radio engineer returned.

"Oh, I can't—I can't—you mustn't—" she stammered, reddening and paling.

He dropped, trembling, flushing and paling, into the indicated seat.

The expectation that he would be able to speak the conciliating word was paling.

And now the lower stars were paling in a far-off flush of light.

Between that garden and these grounds there is but a paling, which we can easily scale.

The west was paling, and the August insects stirred the air with their crooning chirp.

Is there no danger of the creature springing over the paling?