What is "palings"

Usage examples of "palings".

Toilet paper hung in disconsolate streamers from the telephone lines, arched and drooped in the bared maple branches reaching over the windows of the frame garage beyond the fence palings where shaving cream spelled fuck.

The little houses with their sloping roofs and wide porches, the gardens ablaze with color, the neat palings,--all were a restful sight for our weary eyes.

The little log houses of the town came out, the sapling palings and the bare trees,--all grim and gaunt at that cruel season.

From where we lay hid behind log house and palings we strained our eyes towards the prairie to see if Lamothe would take the bait, until our view was ended at the fuzzy top of a hillock.

Clematis and honeysuckle climbed the high palings, and behind the privacy of these, low, big-chimneyed houses of limestone, weathered gray, could be seen, their roofs sloping in gentle curves to the shaded porches in front.

A private of the Spanish Louisiana Regiment in a dirty uniform slouched behind the palings in front of the commandant’s quarters,--a quaint stone house set against the hill, with dormer windows in its curving roof, with a wide porch held by eight sturdy hewn pillars.

He reeled, struck in the side of the head, against the wooden palings at the side of the pit of sand.

I struck him four times before he struck against the palings and twisted away.

The garden was a strip cut to the common suburban pattern - an oblong patch of turf with narrow flower borders to right and left and shrubs at the far end, the whole enclosed with palings, above which, for greater privacy, trellis - work had been erected.

He saw her go like a grey ghost through the shade to a gate in the palings and let herself out.

They walked down through clumps of thorn and gorse to the grey palings of Colborn's house and found the back gate.

I clutched him about the middle and as I did so I kicked my foot backward, forcing it between two iron palings of the fence.

I tried to jerk my foot free of the fence so I could get up to greet her, but the foot was tightly stuck between the palings and I could not get it loose.