picketting

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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Noun

picketing (plural picketings)

1. The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
   • picketings and demonstrations
2. (US) A picket fence.
   • The city is surrounded by picketings, and guarded by forts on the outside, and has since been very strongly fortified.1829, Samuel White, History of the American Troops, during the Late War, under the Command of Cols. Fenton and Campbell. […], Baltimore, Md.: Published by the author. B. Edes, printer., →OCLC, page 57