• Thumbnail for Picketing
    legal name given to awareness-raising picketing. Per Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, it entails picketing by a group, typically a labour or trade...
    15 KB (1,893 words) - 00:14, 29 March 2024
  • tethering device Picket line, to tether horses "Picket line" is also used in picketing, a form of protest See also: "Crossing the picket line" Picket (military)...
    1 KB (230 words) - 18:49, 3 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Picket fence
    Picket fences are a type of fence often used decoratively for domestic boundaries, distinguished by their evenly spaced vertical boards, the pickets, attached...
    7 KB (750 words) - 05:37, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Picket line
    A picket line is a horizontal rope along which horses are tied at intervals. The rope can be on the ground, at chest height (above the knees, below the...
    3 KB (341 words) - 17:04, 20 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Picket (punishment)
    The picket, picquet or piquet was a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. It consisted of the offender being forced...
    2 KB (361 words) - 06:02, 29 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Screw picket
    A screw picket is a metal device which is used to secure objects to the ground. Today, screw pickets are used widely to temporarily "picket" dogs. They...
    3 KB (471 words) - 14:20, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Radar picket
    A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...
    45 KB (5,345 words) - 15:07, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Picket boat
    A picket boat is a type of small naval craft. These are used for harbor patrol and other close inshore work, and have often been carried by larger warships...
    6 KB (721 words) - 01:00, 20 April 2023
  • The Flying Pickets is a British a cappella vocal group which had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 on the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of...
    12 KB (1,235 words) - 11:32, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Picket (military)
    A picket (archaically, picquet [variant form piquet]) is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position...
    4 KB (442 words) - 09:02, 16 November 2023