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- noun Plural form of
picket . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
picket .
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Examples
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Numsa, for its part, warned that the pickets were a forerunner of bigger actions to come.
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For convenience they are classified as pickets, sentry squads, and cossack posts.
The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training Olin Oglesby Ellis 1920
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For convenience outguards are classified as pickets, sentry squads, and cossack posts.
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The stockade was of cottonwood logs, called pickets, 18 feet in length, hewn on three sides and planted three feet in the ground.
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At each place where the pickets were a little spread, they redoubled their efforts to clinch.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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United States Infantry, who, with Companies A and H of his regiment, had been put in command of the siege-artillery, put the four pieces in position; Colonel Morgan, recalling his pickets, posted his command in the trenches.
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Organized by a new student movement to challenge the current regime of cutbacks, the pickets will be the beginning of a series of actions throughout the state by CSU students and supporters.
Indybay newswire 2010
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Organized by a new student movement to challenge the current regime of cutbacks, the pickets will be the beginning of a series of actions throughout the state by CSU students and supporters.
Indybay newswire 2010
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The CU shortly merged with the Woman's Party to become the National Woman's Party (NWP), which employed more radical tactics such as pickets and hunger strikes to call attention to the suffrage cause.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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Pointed stakes or "pickets," 4 ft. high, are planted in rows and secured by ordinary wire to holdfasts or pegs in the ground.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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