picket the goat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
picket a business to protest the layoffs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That's right, that's what they call a picket line. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Robert Cole, May 10, 1981. Interview H-0311. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
If the picket is 6 "wide you get a 6" space. smokesilver. From Wordnik.com. [Border Fencing Comes to Cd. Acuna] Reference
Sorry - Bad mistake: I really didn't mean 'picket' -- that'd make us as bad as them, but more obvious!. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
A picket is a body of men told off for these and other duties. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
I play sometimes too at picket, that is picquet, I mean; but very seldom. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
Their description of why they plan to picket is too vile to print in the Tribune. From Wordnik.com. [Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories] Reference
Why, mun, I play sometimes too at picket, that is picquet, I mean; but very seldom. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
The picket is a part of many organized across the Greater Toronto Area this weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Mississauga News] Reference
Are any Cubans getting through this so-called picket fence to U.S. territorial waters?. From Wordnik.com. [Briefing By Perry Reno And Tarnoff On Cuban Refugees] Reference
The picket was a sequel to a march held earlier this year to demand the workers 'reinstatement. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Dublin Shell to Sea have called a picket of Shell HQ to mark the 100th Day of Niall's imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
If they are taken farther along, the Boer picket, which is probably stationed on the ridge, may be disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
SAPHOR spokesman "Golden Miles" Bhudu, with his hands and legs in chains, said the picket was the start of a campaign to free. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Life among the white settlers was a kind of picket-service in which woman shared. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
This is the place to learn of the card games, such as picket, basset and hazzard, that we read about in 19th-century English novels. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
"This is a community picket, that is not being run by the Unions. From Wordnik.com. [Crikey » Canberra Calling] Reference
We camped out on "picket" Saturday evening and the weather being beautiful we had quite a pleasant time. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin County: Bob Taggart to Captain John Taggart, September [?], 1861] Reference
Still she didn't explain anything to Edwin, but I could see that the boy knew then what a 'picket' looked like. From Wordnik.com. [The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher] Reference
They established a kind of picket-line around his division, so that he could not move any thing without their knowing it. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of Chancellorsville] Reference
An hour after hitting the picket lines at 11 a.m. From Wordnik.com. [The UAW’s Striking Ways] Reference
The gambit failed; weeks of picket-filled protests continue. From Wordnik.com. [A New Ambivalence] Reference
Or picket ships for missile defense off Korea and in the Mediterranean?. From Wordnik.com. [Sea Power] Reference
Luckily, the Writers 'Guild decided to spare the Grammys a picket line. From Wordnik.com. [They Tried to Make Me Hate the Grammys…] Reference
Navy picket ships and U.S. special-forces teams deployed in Latin America. From Wordnik.com. [The Widening Drug War] Reference
The abortion war used to be fought on the picket line and in the courtroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Abortion Wars Come Home] Reference
The teamsters aren't the only ones who won't cross Major League Baseball's picket lines. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasy Scabs] Reference
When spring training opened in Florida and Arizona last week, there were no picket lines. From Wordnik.com. [One Strike And They're Out] Reference
There looked to be as many camera phones documenting the event as there were picket signs. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Rights 2.0] Reference
Among the white picket fences, bikes on front porches and American-flag painted mailboxes. From Wordnik.com. ['Felon Friendly' Rental House In Arvada Has Neighbors Furious] Reference
There were no picket lines, no grandstanding pronouncements by baseball heroes, just quick exits. From Wordnik.com. [We Was Robbed!] Reference
Supreme Court upheld a Florida injunction creating a 36-foot no-picket zone around a local clinic. From Wordnik.com. [Is Murder 'Justifiable Homicide'?] Reference
I mean, I was looking for the proverbial cottage with the white picket fence, way overwhelming. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
If the Screen Actors Guild joins the WGA on the picket lines, actors may scrub publicity appearances. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Storm] Reference
They'd signed on graphic designers to create picket signs, and trained members in civil disobedience. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Rights 2.0] Reference
Today Local 713's union hall still features a wall of shame, lined with names of workers who crossed picket lines. From Wordnik.com. [Workers To Ford: Don't Tread On Us] Reference
On the picket line in Atlanta last week, sorter-driver Anthony Campbell, 28, posed a stark contrast to Phil Stocks. From Wordnik.com. [Big Brown's Union Blues] Reference
Only a month before, rightist pickets had spat on his U.N. ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, and rapped him with a picket placard. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference
Such shows as "Hairspray" planned to use computerized "virtual orchestras," but actors and stagehands refused to cross the picket lines. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
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