单词 | picketing |
释义 | picketingn. 1. Military. The use of the picket (picket n.1 1) as a punishment; an instance of this. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > impaling or picketing impaling1615 impalement1630 picketing1718 impalation1744 1718 Rules Govt. Horse & Foot-guards xxxiv. 25 If any Non-Commission Officer or Soldier shall be found Guilty of the same, he shall be Punished by Riding the Wooden horse, Picketting, or some other such Corporal Punishment. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 15 Punishments for faults, such as whipping and picketing amongst the soldiers. 1799 Times 2 Mar. 1/4 The pickettings,..the rapes, the hundred thousand unheard of..unutterable cruelties..taken to suppress the rebellion. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 306 The commanding-officer..replied, that he would be hung up by his thumbs till he fainted—a variety of piquetting. 1860 H. Gouger Two Years' Imprisonm. Burmah xiii. 141 On this button the culprit stood with bared foot at the manifest risk of being lamed for life. This torture was called picketting. 1979 Mil. Affairs 43 7/2 Throughout the seventeenth and well into the eighteenth century, laying in irons, picketing, and the wooden horse were used to punish minor offenses such as drunkenness. 2. Chiefly U.S. Fencing or palisading made of pickets; picket-work. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling palec1384 paling1558 impaling1598 paling fence?c1663 palisado pale1720 picketing1755 picket fence1777 1755 in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1837) V. 254 Seven men..who were out..getting a few poles to complete the new picketing of the fort. 1813 Weekly Reg. 4 12/2 An order was given to retreat within the picqueting. 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xiv. 188 I discovered..a remarkable picketing or fence, constructed of the dwarf cedars of the mountains. 1860 J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Times Gen. Sam. Dale 25 These forts were merely a number of log cabins built round a small square,..the whole surrounded by a rough picketing. 1932 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 17 Oct. 10/6 Bouquets of the cranberry-laden vines arranged against a fencing [of] white picketings. 3. The organizing or stationing of pickets, esp. in an industrial dispute; the action of forming a picket.secondary picketing: see secondary adj. 3t. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > strike-breaking > posting of pickets to prevent picketing1832 1832 in S. L. Levy Nassau W. Senior 1790–1864 (1970) 242 Molestation is given in various ways, but always in safety, thus..is their system of ‘picketing’ carried on in the open daylight. 1867 Times 22 Aug. 8/3 Baron Bramwell said..that if picketing were done in such a way as to excite no reasonable alarm or not to annoy or coerce those who were the subjects of it, it would be no offence in law. 1876 Biogr. Encycl. Ohio 19th Cent. 426/2 He commanded the regiment in all the active operations of Sherman's division..—constructing field-works,..picketing, skirmishing and fighting. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia Pref. p. x She..was arrested for picketing during a garment-makers' strike. 1950 Chambers's Encycl. XIII. 726/1 The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act..in effect conceded the right to strike and reinstated peaceful picketing in a modified form. 1992 W. McGowan Only Man is Vile (1993) ix. 177 A generation of Tamil youth, raised in an almost perpetual state of conflict with the government—boycotts of schools, picketing of government offices, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). picketingadj. That pickets (in various senses); esp. that forms an industrial picket. ΚΠ 1869 C. Burdett Life Kit Carson 323 The horses of the picketing party were successfully stampeded. 1889 Times 30 Aug. 4 Many men would willingly resume the labours they have thrown up if they could do so with safety, but owing to the picketing parties engaged in watching the dock entrances and other places of business, they are afraid to do so. 1945 Y. F. Rennie Argentine Republic 215 On January 3rd the picketing workers fired on a group of policemen who were conducting wagonloads of metal to the Vasena works. 1969 Times 23 Oct. 2/1 Picketing miners outside Bilsthorpe Colliery, Nottinghamshire, abandoned their efforts to persuade men to join the country-wide strike. 2001 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) 31 Aug. 3 Earlier yesterday, picketing strikers were served with an Auckland City Council directive to stop excessive noise. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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