Pa-lingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

paling

1. present participle and gerund of pale

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale +‎ -ing.

名詞

paling (plural palings)

1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 20, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 117:

     The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 6, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, published 2014:

     The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.

2. A fence made of palings.
   • 1789, Alderman Le Mesurier, addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register, 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.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

   • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎:

     The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs, and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large shady square, without any palings, and with marble-paved walks.

3. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas‎, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118:

     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.

別の表記

• pailing

派生語

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アナグラム

• Galpin