pickets in English

noun

1

a person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue, protesting something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike.

Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.

synonyms: striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer

2

a soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty.

a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin

3

a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or palisade or to tether a horse.

a cedar-picket stockade

synonyms: stake, post, paling, upright, stanchion, piling

verb

1

act as a picket outside (a place of work or other venue).

strikers picketed the newspaper's main building

synonyms: demonstrate at, protest at, strike at, form a picket at, man the picket line at, blockade, shut off

noun

striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer
stake, post, paling, upright, stanchion, piling
lookout, sentinel, scout, watch, spotter, sentry
pale
piquet

verb

demonstrate at
demonstrate at, protest at, strike at, form a picket at, man the picket line at, blockade, shut off

Use "pickets" in a sentence

1. Five pickets were arrested by police.

2. We could hear the chanting of the pickets.

3. Five pickets were injured in the scuffle.

4. The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.

5. 1 Five pickets were injured in the scuffle.

6. Flying pickets arrived from all over the country.

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8. 20 Twenty-five pickets held signs and chanted anti-embargo slogans.

9. 7 Workers continue to enter the plant despite intimidation by mass pickets.

10. Their pickets were posted too close to camp, and no cavalry patrols were out.

11. The pickets travelling to Kent were met by unbridled hostility from local people, orchestrated by local newspapers.

12. Blazon definition, to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets Blazoned their grievances on placards

13. The interdict prohibited four officials from organising or taking part in pickets of more than six people.

14. 30 In Nottinghamshire and adjacent Warwickshire and Leicestershire, pits continued to operate, despite physical intimidation by mass pickets.

15. Despite the saber rattling, most union leaders are not inclined to call for general strikes or mass pickets.

16. 23 The pickets travelling to Kent were met by unbridled hostility from local people, orchestrated by local newspapers.

17. Mathieu bumped into Copons's pickets, found that he was facing a combined force of 23,000 men and quickly Backpedalled

18. There were violent clashes between police and pickets, notably at the Orgreave coking depot in Rotherham in the summer of 19

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20. 3 And he caused that upon those works of timbers there should be a frame of pickets built upon the timbers round about; and they were strong and high.

21. In her 1856 memoir Wau Bun, Juliette Kinzie described the fort as it appeared on her arrival in Chicago in 1831: The fort was inclosed by high pickets, with bastions at the alternate angles.

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