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picket - a vehicle performing sentinel duty |
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military vehicle vehicle used by the armed forces
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armed forces,
armed services,
military,
military machine,
war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
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picket boat a boat serving as a picket
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picket ship a ship serving as a picket
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picket - a wooden strip forming part of a fence |
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pale |
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strip a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
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paling,
picket fence a fence made of upright pickets
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picket - a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work |
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protester,
demonstrator someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
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picket - a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake |
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piquet |
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torturing,
torture the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
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picket - a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack |
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detachment the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
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picket - fasten with a picket; "picket the goat" |
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fasten,
secure,
fix attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"
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picket - serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs" |
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demonstrate,
march march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle"
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