picket line

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noun

a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.

Nearby words

pickering, pickeringite, picket, picket boat, picket fence, picket line, pickett, pickford, pickin, picking, pickings

Origin of picket line

First recorded in 1855–60

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Examples from the Web for picket line

A brief conversation took place between the general and Captain Brown of the picket-line.
Who Goes There?|Blackwood Ketcham Benson
Carleton often rode through them, and out on the picket-line.
Charles Carleton Coffin|William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
Would it not be well to have an intermediate man between me and our picket-line?
Who Goes There?|Blackwood Ketcham Benson
One day the guard brought in a suspicious character from the picket-line.
Whip and Spur|George E. Waring

And the tired men snuggled down under their blankets, not very well pleased with the picket-line.
Company G|A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

British Dictionary definitions for picket line

picket line

noun

a line of people acting as pickets

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picket line

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picket line

noun