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View synonyms for picket line

picket line

noun

  1. a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.


picket line

noun

  1. a line of people acting as pickets
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of picket line1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

Yet the teachers are angrily rejecting it and taking to the picket line.

Without warning, we found ourselves foul of a picket-line, and the vague forms of grazing horses loomed close by.

They had other employment now than guarding teams or keeping watch on the picket line.

The Second and Sixth Corps succeeded in taking the intrenched picket line, and holding it.

Precisely at ten o'clock there was a signal-gun, a yell, a volley of musketry as the Rebels attacked Parke's picket-line.

Parke strengthened his picket-line, and brought up his reserve artillery, to be ready in case of emergency.

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