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View synonyms for picket line
picket line
noun
- a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
picket line
noun
- a line of people acting as pickets
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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.
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Without warning, we found ourselves foul of a picket-line, and the vague forms of grazing horses loomed close by.
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They had other employment now than guarding teams or keeping watch on the picket line.
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The Second and Sixth Corps succeeded in taking the intrenched picket line, and holding it.
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Precisely at ten o'clock there was a signal-gun, a yell, a volley of musketry as the Rebels attacked Parke's picket-line.
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Parke strengthened his picket-line, and brought up his reserve artillery, to be ready in case of emergency.
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