Thesaurus / palings
FEEDBACK- streak
- pig
- stroke
- strip
- slab
- rib
- stake
- boom
- spar
- ingot
- batten
- billet
- rail
- stripe
- shaft
- pole
- rule
- lever
- stick
- paling
- spoke
- crosspiece
- crossbar
- bar
- wall
- rail
- dike
- roadblock
- barbed wire
- barricade
- railing
- net
- block
- shield
- stop
- palisade
- cyclone
- guard
- defense
- stockade
- rampart
- hedge
- balustrade
- posts
- pickets
- paling
- backstop
- chains
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How to use palings in a sentence
Vertical oak palings were the fence, with a five-barred gate in the middle of them.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEEach garden concealed behind its palings the "flower" of Kabyle chivalry, only to be uprooted by the bayonet.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOLUME 11, NO. 24, MARCH, 1873VARIOUSIn a short time the doors and palings were removed, and the walls demolished.
CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERSJULES VERNEShrubs and creeping-plants grew in the neglected gardens, climbed over the palings, and straggled about the streets.
MARTIN RATTLERR.M. BALLANTYNEWith some pains and no little violence to his hands, he wrenched one of the new palings off the fence, and let himself in.
THE OPEN QUESTIONELIZABETH ROBINSPeering through the palings, she could see an unshoveled driveway which curved gracefully to a pillared porch.
GHOST BEYOND THE GATEMILDRED A. WIRTThrough the iron palings they could see a white-garbed figure walking with measured tread amid the shrubs of the frozen garden.
GHOST BEYOND THE GATEMILDRED A. WIRTTo look at the palings before the Yeobrights' house had the dignity of a necessary performance.
RETURN OF THE NATIVETHOMAS HARDYBeyond the irregular carpet of grass was a row of white palings, which marked the verge of the heath in this latitude.
RETURN OF THE NATIVETHOMAS HARDYThomasin came down when the apples were collected, and together they went through the white palings to the heath beyond.
RETURN OF THE NATIVETHOMAS HARDY