picketting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of picket

plural pickettings

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of picketing.

   The town is ſurrounded with pickettings, and guarded by forts on the outſide.

   1753 June, “The Monthly Chronologer”, in The London Magazine: or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXII, London: […] R[ichard] Baldwin […], →OCLC, page 290

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   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.

   1970, Alexander Cordell [pseudonym; George Alexander Graber], “Ambush”, in The White Cockade, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 14

   As the news of the attack and arrests spread, protest meetings, demonstrations and pickettings took place in various districts.

   1989 September–November, “The modern guardians of brahminism”, in Mass Line, number 41, Trichur, Kerala, →OCLC, page 11, column 2