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