资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pale \Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See {Pol?} a
   stake, and lst {Pallet}.]
   1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or
      fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or
      inclosing; a picket.

            Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
                                                  --Mortimer.

   2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a
      fence; a palisade. ``Within one pale or hedge.''
      --Robynson (More's Utopia).

   3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region
      or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. ``To
      walk the studious cloister's pale.'' --Milton. ``Out of
      the pale of civilization.'' --Macaulay.

   4. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer.

   5. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad
      perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant
      from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

   6. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.

   7. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is
      fastened.

   {English pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory within which
      alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for
      a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172.
      --Spencer.