picket
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈpɪkɪt/
美 /ˈpɪkɪt/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A stake driven into the ground.
— a picket fence
- A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
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One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
— So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
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A sentry.
— Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
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A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
— Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
- The card game piquet.
动词 v.
- To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
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To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
— One of the most striking was the silver pin presented to all members of the National Women’s Party who served time for picketting the White House for women’s suffrage.
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To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
— to picket a horse
- To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
词源 2
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
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