Pickets

Word PICKETS
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pickets"

What do we mean by pickets?

A stake driven into the ground.

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

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

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.

(sometimes figurative) A sentry.

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

The card game piquet.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pickets

  • Synonyms for pickets
  • Pickets synonyms not found!!!
  • Antonyms for pickets
  • Pickets antonyms not found!

The word "pickets" in example sentences

Numsa, for its part, warned that the pickets were a forerunner of bigger actions to come. ❋ Unknown (2000)

For convenience they are classified as pickets, sentry squads, and cossack posts. ❋ Olin Oglesby Ellis (1920)

For convenience outguards are classified as pickets, sentry squads, and cossack posts. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The stockade was of cottonwood logs, called pickets, 18 feet in length, hewn on three sides and planted three feet in the ground. ❋ Unknown (1898)

At each place where the pickets were a little spread, they redoubled their efforts to clinch. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)

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. ❋ Unknown (1861)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pointed stakes or "pickets," 4 ft. high, are planted in rows and secured by ordinary wire to holdfasts or pegs in the ground. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is possible, even probable, that they were the pioneer "pickets" of our benighted land. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

The arrival of so numerous, well-dressed, and respectable a corps of workmen and their families was an event in the neighbourhood, and could not fail to strike the "pickets" with surprise. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)

In a pinch, fire trucks, ambulances and police can go through or over lane barriers such as pickets or curbs seen elsewhere around town. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In her writings, she examines the history of protest and documents how tactics such as pickets, rallies, strikes, boycotts, demonstrations, and civil disobedience - the kind of activism that once catapulted a young Baptist minister in Montgomery to the national limelight, an icon whose birthday we just celebrated as a national holiday - often pressure powerful figures in business and government to pay attention to grievances they had previously ignored and level the political playing field. ❋ Peter Dreier (2011)

( "pickets") firmly into the ground, at proper distances apart, to which the animals were severally tied by strong cords, — a plan that should find nightly practice among all travellers of the grand prairies, to prevent those losses which, despite the utmost precaution, will not unfrequently occur. ❋ Unknown (1841)

The Popular Committee also works on information gathering and research mainly from the directly affected residents of Jaffa facing eviction and home demolition; direct action to prevent eviction and home demolition which has involved mobilization of activists to be physically present in homes slated for demolition; organizing popular activities such as pickets, protests, information forums and others; as well as a media campaign to raise awareness about the plight of Jaffa's Palestinian community in local and international media. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cross Reference for Pickets

  • Pickets cross reference not found!

What does pickets mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Best IOS App Reviews