Crossword-Solution: PICKET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Picket | n. | A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. |
| Picket | n. | A pointed pale, used in marking fences. |
| Picket | n. | A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. |
| Picket | n. | By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. |
| Picket | n. | A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. |
| Picket | n. | A game at cards. See Piquet. |
| Picket | v. t. | To fortify with pointed stakes. |
| Picket | v. t. | To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. |
| Picket | v. t. | To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. |
| Picket | v. t. | To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. |
| Picket | v. t. | To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. |
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Sentences with PICKET (5)
The parsonage, next door, looked clean and comfortable, and there was a well-kept yard about it, with a picket fence.
They carried signs advocating, "Don't buy where you can't work," and Powell maintained that they were able almost to stop trade totally at any target they chose to picket.
Men leaped from their blankets and with guns ready ran toward the picket line, and then from the jungle beyond the boma a dozen lions, emboldened by the example of their fellow charged fearlessly upon the camp.
All the elephants in the lines jumped up as if they had been shot, and their grunts at last waked the sleeping mahouts, and they came out and drove in the picket pegs with big mallets, and tightened this rope and knotted that till all was quiet.
They always kept a picket-watch outside the town--mere discipline and ceremony--no occasion for it, no enemy around.
Quotes with PICKET (3)
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocencehe told them the Ice Age was really justthe Chilly Age, a period of a million yearswhen everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long driveways of the time. The Spanish Inquisition was nothing morethan an outbreak of questions such as" How far is it from here to Madrid?""What do you call the matador's hat?" The War of the Roses took place in a garden, and the Enola Gay …
I couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.'He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs.''What kind of dogs?' I asked. He smiled and glanced at me, wanting to see my reaction. 'Maltese. Their names are Peeka and Boo.''Oh, shit, Edward, you're joking me.''Donna wants the dogs included in the engagement pictures.'I stared at him, and the look on my face seemed to amus…
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1970–2018).