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    Pale \Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See {Pole} a
    stake, and 1st {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. Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not
    enclosed or demarcated.
    [PJC]

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

    6. (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.

    7. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.

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

    {English pale}, {Irish pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory
    in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English
    conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period
    after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172.
    See note, below.

    {beyond the pale} outside the limits of what is allowed or
    proper; also, outside the limits within which one is
    protected. --Spencer.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English
    law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of
    the English was restricted, for some centuries after
    the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of
    Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties
    palatine, and this region became subsequently known as
    the Pale, but the limits varied at different times.
    [Century Dict., 1906]

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