paling

noun

One of a row of upright pointed sticks forming a fence; a pale.

Pointed sticks used in making fences; pales.

A fence made of pales or pickets.

Pales or stakes collectively.

A fence formed by connecting pointed vertical stakes by horizontal rails above and below; a picket fence; hence, in general, that which incloses or fences in; in the plural, pales collectively as forming a fence.