picketting

English

Verb

picketting

  1. present participle and gerund of picket

Noun

picketting (plural pickettings)

  1. Alternative spelling of picketing.
    • 1753 June, “The Monthly Chronologer”, in The London Magazine: or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXII, London: […] R[ichard] Baldwin […], →OCLC, page 290:
      The town is ſurrounded with pickettings, and guarded by forts on the outſide.
    • 1970, Alexander Cordell [pseudonym; George Alexander Graber], “Ambush”, in The White Cockade, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 14:
      And another scum had come to the top of the brew—foreign mercenaries, like the terrible Hessians who perpetrated the torture of the pitch cap, the pickettings, the half-hangings—men who shot in the back.
    • 1989 September–November, “The modern guardians of brahminism”, in Mass Line, number 41, Trichur, Kerala, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
      As the news of the attack and arrests spread, protest meetings, demonstrations and pickettings took place in various districts.
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