English

Verb

1. Present participle of to pale.

Noun

1. a pointed stick used to make a fence
2. 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.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

1. eel

• Chris Paling (born 1956), author of modern fiction
• Wilfred Paling (1883-1971), British Labour politician
• William Paling (1892-1992), Labour Party politician