Pal"ing (?), n. 1.
Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit;
an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and
decorum.
De Quincey.
2. The act of placing pales or stripes on
cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the
sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]