Definition of "palings" [palings]

• Plural form of paling. (noun)

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• "The street they walked up began from the wharf with two-storied respectable buildings – the Bank, the Post-Office, the police-magistrate's residence, some dwelling houses, within palings enclosing gardens – clumps of bananas, pawpaw apple trees, a few flower beds, bushes of flaunting red poinsettia, and so forth."
• "The first who scaled the palings was a stoutish, middle-aged man: but who was the other?"
• "The farmhouse stood in the middle of a very large yard, and the yard was fenced on three sides with rails and on the rear side with high palings; against these stood the smokehouse; beyond the palings was the orchard; beyond the orchard were the negro quarter and the tobacco-fields."