English Dictionary

pale

IPA（発音記号）

/peɪɫ/

名詞

古語 広義 歴史的

A wooden stake; a picket. / (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade. / (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).

日本語の意味

木の杭、くい / 木製の柵、囲い / 境界、限界

The farmer drove a pale into the ground to mark the boundary of his field.

農夫は畑の境界を示すために木の杭を地面に打ち込んだ。

意味（1）

A wooden stake; a picket.

[…] if you deſign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot diſtance, ſet a Poſt with a Mortice in it to ſtand a little ſloping over the ſide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail […] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.

意味（2）

(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

How are we park’d and bounded in a pale, A little herd of England’s timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

意味（3）

(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).

But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.

意味（4）

The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

.@realDonaldTrump saying that he might not accept election results is beyond the pale.

意味（5）

(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

意味（6）

(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.

意味（7）

(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).

He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.

意味（8）

(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.

意味（9）

(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

意味（10）

A cheese scoop.

pales （ plural ）