Толковый словарь английского языка - picket
Picket
picket
I. noun see: pike Date: circa 1702 a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale, 2. a detached body of soldiers serving to guard an army from surprise, a detachment kept ready in camp for such duty, sentry , a person posted by a labor organization at a place of work affected by a strike, II. verb Date: 1745 transitive verb to enclose, fence, or fortify with ~s, 2. to guard with a ~, to post as a ~, tether , 4. to post ~s at, to walk or stand in front of as a ~, intransitive verb to serve as a ~, ~er noun
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n. & v. --n. 1 a person or group of people outside a place of work, intending to persuade esp. workers not to enter during a strike etc. 2 a pointed stake or peg driven into the ground to form a fence or palisade, to tether a horse, etc. 3 (also picquet, piquet) Mil. a a small body of troops sent out to watch for the enemy, held in readiness, etc. b a party of sentries. c an outpost. d a camp-guard on police duty in a garrison town etc. --v. (picketed, picketing) 1 a tr. & intr. station or act as a picket. b tr. beset or guard (a factory, workers, etc.) with a picket or pickets. 2 tr. secure (a place) with stakes. 3 tr. tether (an animal). Phrases and idioms picket line a boundary established by workers on strike, esp. at the entrance to the place of work, which others are asked not to cross. Derivatives picketer n. Etymology: F piquet pointed stake f. piquer prick, f. pic PICK(2) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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