paling means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.
paling is pronounced /ˈpeɪlɪŋ/.
Etymology
Variant of Palin.
noun
- A pointed stick used to make a fence.“The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]”
- 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 insu”
- A fence made of galvanized sheeting.“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.”