| 单词 | picket house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspicket house picket house n. (a) Military (in a garrison) the building where a picket is stationed; (b) a house made from pickets or posts. ΚΠ 1830 Times 2 June 2/5 They have..block-houses, made musket-proof, which..will be used as redoubts or picket-houses. 1847 Alton (Illinois) Tel. & Democratic Rev. 5 Mar. The town..had only a few small picket houses, of which none were large enough to store the cargoes of the barges. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 6/1 A draft of about fifty men..in Guernsey..attacked the picquet house on the pier at St. Peter's Port. 1981 E. Kelton Eyes of Hawk (2001) 42 Some who had been there longer had built picket houses, copied after the style of Mexican jacales, but these..had been poor shelter against the elements. < as lemmas |
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