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单词 picquet
释义

picket, also piquet or picquet /pikˈit/

noun
  1. A person or group stationed to watch and dissuade those who go to work during a strike
  2. A small outpost, patrol, or body of men set apart for some special duty
  3. Picket-duty
  4. A pointed stake or peg driven into the ground, eg for fortification, tethering, military punishment or surveying
  5. A surveyor's mark
  6. The old military punishment of standing on one foot on a pointed stake
transitive verb (pickˈeting; pickˈeted)
  1. To deal with as a picket or by means of pickets
  2. To place pickets at or near
  3. To post as a picket
  4. To tether to a stake
  5. To strengthen or surround with pickets
  6. To peg down
  7. To subject to the picket
intransitive verb

To act as picket

ORIGIN: Fr piquet, dimin of pic a pickaxe

pickˈeter noun

A person who pickets in a labour dispute

pickˈet-duty noun

picket fence noun (US)

A fence made of pales

pickˈet-guard noun

A guard kept in readiness in case of alarm

picket line noun

A line of people acting as pickets in a labour dispute

picket out

(in a labour dispute) to close or bring to a standstill by picketing

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