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Picket

['pɪkɪt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake.

(noun.) a wooden strip forming part of a fence.

(noun.) a vehicle performing sentinel duty.

(noun.) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack.

(noun.) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work.

(verb.) fasten with a picket; 'picket the goat'.

(verb.) serve as pickets or post pickets; 'picket a business to protest the layoffs'.

艾丽萨校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

(n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

(n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

(n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.

(n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

(n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.

(v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.

(v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

(v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

(v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

(v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

校對:雷明顿

同義詞及近義詞:

n. [1]. Stake, pale.[2]. (Mil.) Sentinel (on the outposts), guard, watchman, guardsman, sentry.

錄入:朱莉

解釋/意思:

n. a pointed stake used in fortification: a small outpost or guard stationed in front of an army: a number of men sent out by a trades-union to prevent others from working against the wishes or decisions of the union: a game at cards: a punishment inflicted by making a person stand on one foot on a pointed stake.—v.i. to fasten to a stake as a horse: to post a vanguard: to place a picket at or near.—ns. Pick′et-fence a fence of pickets or pales; Pick′et-guard a guard kept in readiness in case of alarm.

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