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Paling vs Pailing - What's the difference?

paling | pailing |

As nouns the difference between paling and pailing

is that paling is a pointed stick used to make a fence while pailing is archaic form of lang=en.

As a verb paling

is present participle of lang=en.

paling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pointed stick used to make a fence.
  • A fence made of palings.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
    • The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

    pailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * (William Cobbett)
    • Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen's plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their pailings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair