Picketing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Picketing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of picket.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of picket.
More Meanings
- The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
- (chiefly US) A picket fence.
Example Sentences
picketings and demonstrations
The city is surrounded by picketings, and guarded by forts on the outside, and has since been very strongly fortified.
He therefore strengthened that place as much as possible, with bags of flour and sand, which was so effectual that the picketings in that place sustained no material injury.
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.
Word Forms
- picketting
- picketings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sentry, sentinel, watch, scout, lookout, pale.
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