picket house

A form of picket-house — A wooden building made by fitting boards across a framework of upright poles, often constructed as part of an outpost or as the first shelter in a new homestead.

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Meanings

nounpicket house (plural picket houses)

plural picket houses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of picket-house.

    East of the sewer outlet was “Soapsuds Row,” which was a collection of huts, old tents, picket houses, and dugouts.

    2013, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
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    The others from the church across the street from Baca poured volley after volley into the door and window of the picket house where Baca was hiding.

    2012, Ann Lacy, Anne Valley-Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico, page 105

    My husband and his brother, Charles, made a dugout for us to live in and built a picket house of one room a short distance away.

    2014, Terri M. Baker, Connie Oliver Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives
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APA

picket house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picket%20house

MLA

“picket house.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picket%20house. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “picket house,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picket%20house.

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