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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