What is "pickets"

Usage examples of "pickets".

The pickets held back, but they watched him intently and closely, and as he stepped away from them down the corridor, following Adelaide, they stalked after him with hard and humorless faces.

A handful of soldiers stood at sentry duty at the pickets, offering ragged salutes as the captain passed them.

Grey Swords looked ready to defend their guests, if those pickets and trenches were any indication.

The pickets were systematically thumping their shoulders against the frame, and one of the top bolts was already hanging loose from its screws.

Almost at the same moment, the angry pickets burst open the casualty department doors, and scrambled inside with their makeshift weapons.

All around were Rebel patrols, pickets and guards, watching every avenue of egress.

They threw out pickets to all the approaches to their headquarters, and provided otherwise against surprise.

General wants two level-headed chaps to go out beyond the pickets to the front and toward the left.

We soon came to our skirmish or pickets, only a few rods in front of our works, and cautioned them not to fire on us in going or returning.

Their pickets were out just a little ways from their works, and we were almost on to them before they discovered us.

After starting we saw that the pickets also had fires, and that we were between the two lines.

He climbed to his feet, stretched his arms, and picked up his rifle in readiness to relieve the pickets in the rifle pits above the river.

Blythe led his troop a few miles west of the last Union pickets and then stopped at the summit of a small hill to stare into the empty landscape.

Blue Ridge until he reached the deserted rails of the Manassas Gap Railroad, but that when he had tried to follow that rail line east, he had almost been captured by Southern cavalry pickets who had been guarding an immense column of troops hurrying toward Thoroughfare Gap.