'Picketing' definitions:
Definition of 'Picketing'
From: GCIDE
- Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Picketing.]
- 1. To fortify with pointed stakes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'picketing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beef,
- bitch,
- boycott,
- challenge,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- confinement,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- dismemberment,
- estrapade,
- exception,
- expostulation,
- galleys,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hard labor,
- howl,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- indignation meeting,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- kick,
- march,
- martyrdom,
- nonviolent protest,
- objection,
- penal servitude,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- qualm,
- railriding,
- rally,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- rock pile,
- scruple,
- sit-in,
- squawk,
- strappado,
- strike,
- tar-and-feathering,
- teach-in,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture