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What does pale mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pale? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Light in color.
  2. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
  3. Feeble, faint.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
  2. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
  3. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
Noun
  1. A wooden stake; a picket.
  2. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
  3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
  4. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
  5. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  6. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
    1. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
    2. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
    3. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
  7. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  8. A cheese scoop.
  9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
Verb
  1. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
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