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Picket line   /pˈɪkɪt laɪn/   Listen
Picket line

noun
1.
A line of people acting as pickets.





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"Picket line" Quotes from Famous Books



... out that four days after Alixe Delavigne had returned to Rosebank Villa, that a packet of important letters was smuggled past the droning Professor's picket line, one of which caused Nadine Johnstone to hide her tell-tale blushes in ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... following the day of the funeral scarcely half of the usual force of workmen appeared at the Mill. The men who did choose to work were forced to pass a picket line of strikers who with jeers and threats and arguments sought to turn ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright


Words linked to "Picket line" :   line


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