English Dictionary

paling

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpeɪlɪŋ/

名詞

カリブ海英語

A pointed stick used to make a fence. / A fence made of palings. / (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.

日本語の意味

柵杭：フェンスを作るための尖った棒 / 杭製のフェンス：杭で組まれた囲い / （カリブ）亜鉛めっき鋼板で作られた囲い

He hammered a paling into the ground to secure the garden fence.

彼は庭の柵を固定するために杭を地面に打ち込んだ。

意味（1）

A pointed stick used to make a fence.

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

意味（2）

A fence made of palings.

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.

意味（3）

(Caribbean) 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.

palings （ plural ）