The Anglo-Norman Dictionary has the following entry for 'paliser':
s. maker of fences: touz les forestiers, parkers, guarrenners, palisers,
bondgardes de nostre forest GAUNT1 ii 330.
The stated meaning is very similar to 'paling-maker', but the example given
rather points to a slightly different meaning - that a paliser was a forest
official, presumably someone responsible for maintaining or policing a boundary
fence or pale.
Matt Tompkins
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