pales

1. To turn pale; to lose colour.
2. To become insignificant.
3. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

verb

To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

1. A wooden stake; a picket.
2. 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. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
6. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
7. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
8. A cheese scoop.
9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.