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picketing, vbl. n.|ˈpɪkɪtɪŋ|
[See -ing1.]
The action of the vb. picket; a. see picket v. 2; spec. b. in a labour dispute, the posting of men to intercept non-strikers on their way to work and prevail upon them to desist. secondary picketing: see secondary a.
a.1753J. Collier Art Torment. 15 Punishments for faults, such as whipping and picketing amongst the soldiers. 1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. II. 306 The commanding-officer..replied, that he would be hung up by his thumbs till he fainted—a variety of piquetting. 1842R. R. Madden United Irishmen I. xi. 335 The pickettings and half-hangings, and other modes and instruments of torture. 1860H. Gouger Imprisonment in 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.
b.1867Times 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... The picketing which Mr. Druitt and his friends organized..was intimidation, and nothing less. 1891Guardian 11 Mar. 377/2 In theory picketing is merely the use of fair argument to dissuade men from becoming ‘blacklegs’. In practice the force of the argument is found to depend very largely on the numbers and demeanour of those who employ it.
c. concr. A fence or palisade made of pickets; picket-work. U.S.
1755in 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. 1860J. 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. |