picketing
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English
Alternative forms
Verb
picketing
- present participle and gerund of picket
Noun
picketing (plural picketings)
- The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
- picketings and demonstrations
- (chiefly US) A picket fence.
- 1829, Samuel White, History of the American Troops, during the Late War, under the Command of Cols. Fenton and Campbell. ">…], Baltimore, Md.: Published by the author. B. Edes, printer., →OCLC, page 57:
- The city is surrounded by picketings, and guarded by forts on the outside, and has since been very strongly fortified.
- 1886, Z F Smith, “War of 1812–15”, in The History of Kentucky. ">…], Louisville, Ky.: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, , →OCLC, page 471:
- The enemy, posted among the houses of the French inhabitants and the picketings of their gardens, were advanced upon gallantly by Majors Graves and Madison, and dislodged in the face of a heavy fire.
- 1901 July, Julia M. Haynes, “Fremont in History”, in Ohio Archæological and Historical Publications, volume X, number 1, Columbus, Oh.: or the Society by Fred J. Heer, →OCLC, page 59:
- He therefore strengthened that place as much as possible, with bags of flour and sand, which was so effectual that the picketings in that place sustained no material injury.
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References
- “picketing, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
