Word Finder - pickets

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A stake driven into the ground.

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a picket fence

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A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

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A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

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One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

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(sometimes figurative) A sentry.

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A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

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Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

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The card game piquet.

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To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

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To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

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To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

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to picket a horse

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To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

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To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Dave Prentis will join pickets at the Judd Street entrance of Camden Town Hall at 11am tomorrow.

What reasonable, sensible person would object either to a fair rent or to peaceful pickets?

There were good pickets at council workplaces, with most members respecting picket lines.

If the picket line takes it in turns as official pickets then this rota should also be recorded.

Within a week, mass pickets were organized in Sydney & Melbourne docks.

Photograph of children pickets holding placards with the slogan " Victory to the miners.

We'd had mass pickets before but we'd only had police with riot shields - nothing nasty.

On pickets, defense squads controlled by workers need to be set up to stop the police getting scab labor in.

We 'd had mass pickets before but we 'd only had police with riot shields - nothing nasty.

They formed flying pickets, going from factory to factory bringing more workers out.

North East Wales Institute of HE - NATFHE organized strong pickets at all five entrances to main campus.

They might retreat and leave the pickets.

But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout.