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Picketed

Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Picketing.]

  1. To fortify with pointed stakes.

  2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

  3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

  4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

  5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.]

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picketed

vb. (en-past of: picket)

Usage examples of "picketed".

He was a cavalryman, but he had picketed his horse a few yards away and had crept up on Ahmed on foot.

TV stations the world over were being picketed despite the fact that the nonvideo media had made it clear that the broadcasters were not responsible.

The major approaches into Separatist space were picketed by droid starfighters, backed up by newly revealed capital ships: Geonosian Dreadnaughts that lumbered out from secret shipyards.

Women journalists picketed the Gridiron Club in Washington, which excluded women.

Six of the new leviathans and half the superdreadnoughts remained behind, but the others - all the others, even the battlecruisers which had picketed the warp point for so long - headed in-system, and they were already launching their gunboats.

Mardikian phoned me to say the place was being picketed by B'nai B'rith, the United Jewish Appeal, the Jewish Defence League, and the whole House of David starting team.

And no more than a hundred yards from our modestly ostentatious rental, Leroy Purcell's beach palace occupied a sandy, picketed lot just one left and two rights from our own canary-yellow front door.

Camels and ponies were being picketed for the night, bales of merchandise were being stacked ready for loading, and fires were being lit round which the drivers would doss down near their animals.

There was a line of picketed heavy draft animals, kasi, many of them now lying at ease chewing their cuds.

While Lebo picketed the horses he walked out on the dark slope to listen.

Having assumed personal responsibility for the world's mutilated and missing toes, he marched, picketed, pamphleteered, and petitioned, protesting military action in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and South Africa.

But any paint store that sold white would be picketed and any manufacturer of white paint would be signaling they're white supremacists.