Meaning

4 senses

  1. (rare)A line or rope held by one or many pickets, chiefly one used for tethering horses.

    a line of people acting as pickets

  2. (rare)A barrier or fortification formed by pickets; a stockade.

  3. A boundary guarded by a picket (unit of soldiers).

  4. A boundary created by workers participating in a strike, generally at the workplace entrance, which other workers are asked not to pass.

Examples

11 sentences

  1. Tom didn't want to cross the picket line.

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  2. I didn't want to cross the picket line.

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  3. I don't want to cross the picket line.

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  4. I doubt Tom has the courage to cross the picket line.

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  5. I doubt that Tom has the courage to cross the picket line.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From picket (“stake driven into the ground; soldier or small unit of soldiers assigned to

From picket (“stake driven into the ground; soldier or small unit of soldiers assigned to perform a duty; protester positioned outside a workplace, etc., during a strike; the protest itself”) + line.

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Forms

plural: picket lines
Singularpicket line
Pluralpicket lines

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pickaxepickerpicketpickleB2pickpocket
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