单词 | paling |
释义 | palingn.1ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > vertical stripe > striping palingc1390 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > stripes or bars barc1385 barringc1386 bendingc1386 palingc1390 pale1415 candy stripe1875 broken line1937 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 417 The cost of embrawdynge the degise, endentynge or barrynge, owndynge, palynge [v.r. paleinge], wyndynge or bendynge, and semblable wast of clooth in vanitee. 2. The action of constructing a fence, or enclosing an area, with wooden pales. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > with or as with paling paling?1469 impaling1598 palisading1719 impalement1828 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > [noun] > constructing or enclosing with fences railing?a1450 paling?1469 stowering1557 fencing1628 palisading1729 impalement1828 staking1897 ?1469 Earl of Oxford in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 391 They þat ben possessioners of the same shulde payle certeine of the parke of Weverston... And it is agreed..to deliuer the said Duchesse possession of the said seruice and palyng. 1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 17 §6 For..pailing, railing, or enclosing of Parkes [etc.]. 1593 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1887) (modernized text) VI. 687 (modernized text) Every common labourer, for ditching, paling,..threshing, [etc.]. 1647 in Econ. Jrnl. (1914) 24 222 Every man laborer for ditching, paleing, raileing, hedging, threshing and other common labors. 1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 106 The..Paling, Stubbing, Hedging, &c., of his Grounds and Parks. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 212 Much us'd in Essex..; but in few other Countreys, except for Paleing. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Nails Pound Nails, are four-square in the Shank; much used in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, tho' scarce elsewhere, except for paling. 1999 Oxoniensia 63 92 There certainly was a frenzy of activity in tree planting and paling which took place in 1561. 3. concrete. a. A fence made from wooden pales or (later also) metal stakes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling palec1384 paling1558 impaling1598 paling fence?c1663 palisado pale1720 picketing1755 picket fence1777 1558 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 120 The palyng for the seyd pynfold. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. iii. 38 It is not every field..which a gentleman pleases to surround with a wall or paling..that is thereby constituted a legal park. 1793 W. Tench Compl. Acct. Settlem. Port Jackson 44 Baneelon no sooner found himself in a back-yard, than he nimbly leaped over a slight paling. 1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 751/1 Before the door was a..row of trees..fenced in by a white paling. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 425 Split oaken planks to be used for strong palings. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xvi. 130 All round this [log-house] they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high. 1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel xiv. 313 Fruit growers, to save themselves the expense of walls and palings, would not be allowed in this manner to spread sickness and death throughout the community. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xiv For outer fence he had run round it a stiff, very close-set paling of heart-of-oak, the tree's dark core. 1990 E. McGrath Charnel House (BNC) 220 He stood aside and leaned his back against the wire paling as the hearse came round the corner. b. Wood prepared for or made into pales; pales collectively; fencing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for fencing wattling1622 hurdle-wood1649 paling1664 withering1852 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling > collective or material of paling1664 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxxii. 109 That no unnecessary Imbezelment be made by pretences of Repair of Paling, Lodges, Browse for Deer, &c. 1777 W. Mason Eng. Garden (ed. 2) ii. 16 Extend a rail of elm, securely arm'd With spiculated paling. 1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 22 The firs answer for..paling for fences. 1806 Balance 5 231/1 1,200 feet of new cypress paling from around Captain Randolph's lots blown down. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §181. 62 When park paling of cleft pales is made. 1904 G. K. Chesterton Napoleon of Notting Hill iii. iii. 182 The high, thin, and lath-like paling which fenced certain long gardens. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 103 In Herefordshire, builders have traditionally made use of a form of paling to fill the interstices in half-timbered houses and barns. 1999 Oxoniensia 63 96 Paling was used in the middle of the 16th century. c. Any of the pales from which a fence is made. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling > a stake pale board1483 garden pale1591 stab1680 paling1820 stake1897 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 81 His horse was no longer seen tied at the palings on Sunday nights. 1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne II. ii. viii. 73 He..plunged..over some palings into a field. 1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 19 I don't want to be put on my cooling-board on account of driving a new set of nails in the front palings. 1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 161 She praised him over the palings to Parthenope in undertone. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 10 The palings are interwoven by a double No. 8 wire at the top and a double No. 8 wire at the bottom. 1998 O. Kempadoo Buxton Spice (1999) 140 I looked at her wiggling a loose paling in the fence. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > soldering > types of paling1703 cold soldering1864 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 194 The Method of Paleing (as they call it,) or Soddering on of Imbost Figures on Leaden Work. 1881 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Paleing, in plumbing, the soldering on of embossed figures on leaden work. Compounds C1. General attributive, as paling board, paling fence, paling post, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > sawn > waste piece(s) left after sawing paling board?c1663 stump-shot1812 stub-shot1875 offcut1960 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling palec1384 paling1558 impaling1598 paling fence?c1663 palisado pale1720 picketing1755 picket fence1777 ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 469 Letters from Francis Sharpe about timber for paling stuffe. 1787 Act 27 Geo. III c. 13 Sched. A, in Statutes at Large (1789) XV. 319 Pailing Boards hewed on one Side. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 110 Plate xxx Two different sorts of paling fences. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 234 A paling Board is the outside or sappy part of a tree, sawed off from the four sides, in order to make the remaining part square. 1843 Amer. Pioneer 2 308 A strong body occupied the yard of Ebenezer Zane..using the paling fence as a cover. 1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus i. 179 The hedge and paling bounds. 1947 P. Kavanagh Soul for Sale 13 When we put our ears to the pailing-post The music that came out was magical. 1996 New Idea June 63/1 The old dog Ness had dug a hip-hole for herself in the cool dirt against the paling fence. C2. ΚΠ 1835 J. Batman Jrnl. in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. App. i. 377 One cross-cut saw, four files, two harrows, one shingle hammer, one pailing hammer. a1882 J. Brown Forester (ed. 5) iv. 75 A common nail-hammer, or what is termed No. 3 paling-hammer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). palingn.2 Chiefly literary and poetic. The action of becoming or turning pale. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] > loss of colour discoloura1398 palingc1450 discolouration1545 discolouredness1585 discolouring1598 decoloration1623 etiolation1784 discolourment1821 pallescence1822 discolorization1827 lightening1839 decolorizing1861 decolorization1871 c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) ii. 1568 (MED) For in her face al waye was the blode Withoutyn palyng or any drawyng dovne. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad I. x. 318 At length, the paling of the clouds to gray Proclaims the progress of the night's decay. 1863 M. J. Holmes Marian Grey xvii. 205 The thick folds of the vail told no tales of the sudden paling of the lip, the flushing of her cheek. 1906 J. London All Gold Canyon in Moon-face & Other Stories 175 Sleep came to him in the end, but his eyes were open with the first paling of the stars. 1990 R. Staines Market Gardening iv. 44 Sulphur is a vital ingredient in the synthesis of chlorophyll within the plant. The deficiency therefore shows as a paling of young leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). palingadj.1 Chiefly poetic and literary. That becomes or turns pale. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > becoming pale palinga1627 pallescent1657 a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women i. iv, in 2 New Playes (1657) 18 Your nice paling Physicking-Gentlefolks. 1702 S. Centlivre Beau's Duel i. i. 2 Constant paleing Lovers..can't bear those strong Joys we suck from our lusty Draughts of Love. 1823 ‘B. Cornwall’ Flood of Thessaly 119 O'er her eyes and o'er Her paling cheek hues like the grave were spread. 1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 41 The sun looks downward with a paling light. 1899 19th Cent. Nov. 817 By the dual light of paling moon and rising sun. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xvii. 248 Back from the shore rose dark and shadowy mountains against a paling sky. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Mar. 11/1 One's focus travels backward, in the misty, paling ranges of this painting, from peak to peak along a carefully zigzag path. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † palingadj.2 Obsolete. rare. That surrounds a person or thing; enclosing. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] pent1610 casinga1616 closinga1616 palingc1630 bosominga1851 enclosing1856 including1899 c1630 Trag. Rich. II (1870) 34 That dost allowe thy paleing flatterers To guild them selues with others misseryes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1c1390n.2c1450adj.1a1627adj.2c1630 |
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