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    A picket has two common uses. First, it is a pointed wooden stake, especially the small posts of a 'picket fence' — a fence made of thin, upright boards, usually painted white. Second, and more common now, a picket is a person, or a line of people, standing outside a workplace during a strike, holding signs, trying to get attention and sometimes trying to stop other workers or trucks from going in. As a verb, 'to picket' means to stand outside like this in protest.

    糾察隊（罷工現場站崗抗議的人）；picket fence 指尖樁籬笆

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組成From French 'piquet,' a small pointed stake — related to 'piquer,' to prick or poke.

同家族的字

  • piqueboth trace back to French 'piquer,' to prick — pique is the sharp, pricking feeling of being annoyed

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Picketname

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    A surname.

picketnoun/ˈpɪkɪt/

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    A stake driven into the ground.

    • a picket fence
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    historicalA type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

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    A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

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    governmentmilitarypoliticsOne 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.
    • 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.
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    card-gamesgamesThe card game piquet.

picketverb/ˈpɪkɪt/

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    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
    • [T]he Moors kept a good Guard all Night, and did not unſaddle their Horſes, but picketted them before the Tent-Doors; […]
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    To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

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    obsoleteTo torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。