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51picket — [[t]pɪ̱kɪt[/t]] pickets, picketing, picketed 1) VERB When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the… …
52picket — n. & v. n. 1 a person or group of people outside a place of work, intending to persuade esp. workers not to enter during a strike etc. 2 a pointed stake or peg driven into the ground to form a fence or palisade, to tether a horse, etc. 3 (also… …
53picket boat — noun a boat serving as a picket (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑picket * * * a vessel used to patrol a harbor. [1865 70] * * * picket boat, an armed naval boat that patrols an area, especially at night …
54picket — Piquet Pi*quet , n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and… …
55Picket line — A picket line is a horizontal rope, along which horses are tied at intervals. The rope can be on the ground, at chest height (above the knees, below the neck), or overhead. The overhead form usually is called a high line.A variant of a high line …
56Picket Fences — Un drôle de shérif Un drôle de shérif Titre original Picket Fences Autres titres francophones High Secret City, la ville du grand secret Genre Série dramatique Créateur(s) David E. Kelley Production David E. Kelley Pays d’origine …
57picket — Synonyms and related words: Argus, Charley, advance guard, airplane spotter, anchor, armed guard, bank guard, bar, beef, bind, bitch, blockade, boggle, box in, boycott, bridle, bulkhead in, call in question, chain, challenge, coast guard,… …
58picket — pick|et1 [ pıkıt ] noun count 1. ) a stick put into the ground and used for marking something or for tying an animal to 2. ) a group of people who are protesting about something outside a building, especially a group of workers who are on STRIKE… …
59picket — 1. noun 1) forty pickets were arrested Syn: striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer 2) fences made of cedar pickets Syn: stake, post, paling; upright, stanchion, piling …
60picket — n 1. stake, pale, paling, post; upright, stanchion, pile; peg, tether. 2. picketer, demonstrator, protestor, protestant, re sister, objector, rebel, agitator, dissenter, dissident, marcher, Inf. sit in. 3. forward observer, lookout, spotter,… …
