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ˈout-ˌpicket [out- 1.] A picket posted at a distance out or in advance; an outpost.
1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 430 Marmont himself..surprised and captured the out picquet of the party. 1859Mowbray Thomson Story Cawnpore iv. 68 But if the intrenched postion was one of peril, that of the outpicket in barrack No. 4 was even more so. |