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picket English

Meaning picket meaning

What does picket mean?

picket

— noun a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack — noun (= watch) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event — verb fasten with a picket picket the goat — verb serve as pickets or post pickets picket a business to protest the layoffs — noun a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work — noun a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake — noun a wooden strip forming part of a fence — noun a vehicle performing sentinel duty

Synonyms picket synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as picket?

picket English » English

stake guard watch pale sentry pole piquet picketer outpost sentinel scout peg paling tether surround staking spotter protect post pile palisade lookout man lookout watchman watcher ward vanguard tie stump strip spile sod sliver slat security guard secure screener ring pointed stake pillar picquet patrolman patroller patrol louvre louver lash keeper hem in guardian

Conjugation picket conjugation

How do you conjugate picket?

picket · verb

Examples picket examples

How do I use picket in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I'll picket your whole country.
A house with a picket fence and a barn with a weathervane of a running horse.
I waited so long in front of that restaurant, they thought I was a picket.
Gill, 50, Picket, 45, Talbot, 70, Parrish, 85.
Where did you picket the horses?
Mr. Pennell, picket lines!
She hadn't been on a picket line in years.
When you're dismissed, walk your horses for half an hour, then water and picket them.
We'll settle this tonight behind the picket lines.
Is he likely to picket my office?
Cruisers and destroyers on the picket line. are holding off the kamikazes, but some are bound to break through.
I've just come from the picket lines.
My squadron is on picket duty.
Yes, and they have guards across it like a picket fence.
I'll picket your whole country. I'll boycott you, that's what I'll do.
Mr Pennell - picket lines. You don't have to say it, Captain.
The picket guard won't let you.
Oh, here we are. I'll just inspect the picket at Europa Point. And then I'll come back and collect you.
You're gonna be living in a cottage with a picket fence just like the title page on a song sheet.
Just an ordinary eight-to-fiver with a yen for picket fences.
Grab a horse off that picket line for Smitty.
Yes, a troublemaker, an instigator, a picket-plugger, yes, you are.
He fell during Picket's Charge.
So a bunch of them went and threw a picket line around that white school.
Looked to me like it was you who got that picket line called off.
We got a right to picket. They hit us right and left.
Picket all the jewelry stores on Fifth Avenue?
They ran into our picket on Alpha Four.
I'm gonna picket an embassy.
Form the picket-line up here!
It used to be my defense on picket lines. and rallies and political meetings. being dragged off by the police. and attacked by thugs of the opposition.
He drove into a picket line one day, hurting two cops. There was no investigation.
I picket that show until they was crazy.
I picket. I picket. I picket.

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Tom Sawyer pulled off that business strategy when he persuaded his friends to pay him for the privilege of taking over his hated chore, painting the picket fence.

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