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picketted

picketted is the simple past and past participle of picket.

Meaning of picket

Verb

picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing or (rare) picketting, simple past and past participle picketed or (rare) picketted)

  1. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
  2. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
    • One of the most striking was the silver pin presented to all members of the National Women’s Party who served time for picketting the White House for women’s suffrage.2003, Christopher Fowler, “Hop”, in Demonized: Short Stories, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2004, →ISBN, page 168
  3. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
    • to picket a horse
  4. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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Questions about picketted

What is picketted the simple past and past participle of?
Picketted is the simple past and past participle of picket.

Words near picketted in the dictionary

  1. pickets
  2. Pickett
  3. Pickett County
  4. Pickett's charge
  5. Pickett's charges
  6. picketted
  7. picketting
  8. pickettings
  9. Picketts
  10. Picketts Valley
  11. pickfest

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