GDict

picketing

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verb
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of picketform-ofgerundparticiple

noun
  1. 1

    The act of one who pickets (in any sense).

    • picketings and demonstrations
  2. 2

    A picket fence.US

    • The city is surrounded by picketings, and guarded by forts on the outside, and has since been very strongly fortified.
    • 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.

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