Picket vs Picketer - What's the difference?
picket | picketer | Synonyms |
A stake driven into the ground.
(historical) 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.
(military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, chapter=26, title= A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
* , chapter=22
, title= (card games) The card game piquet.
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Someone who s; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 9, author=Sharon Waxman, title=What’s in a Slur? A New Play Searches for Answers, work=New York Times
, passage=At the first show at U.C.L.A., picketers ended up joining the ticket line to see what the play was about.}}
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 27, author=Nick Bunkley And Mary M. Chapman, title=Off the Picket Line at G.M., Relieved but Wary, work=New York Times
, passage=While hourly workers ponder the agreement, salaried workers at G.M., many of whom encountered picketers blocking plant entrances when they arrived for work on Monday and Tuesday, said they, too, were thankful the strike did not drag on, because there was no upside for them.}}
Picket is a synonym of picketer.
As nouns the difference between picket and picketer
is that picket is a stake driven into the ground while picketer is someone who s; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.As a verb picket
is to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.picket
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(en noun)- 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.
The Dust of Conflict, passage=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.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
Verb
(en verb)- to picket a horse
Derived terms
* picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----picketer
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