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Definition of Picket line
1. Noun. A line of people acting as pickets.
Definition of Picket line
1. Noun. (rare) A line or rope held by one or many pickets, chiefly one used for tethering horses. ¹
2. Noun. (military) (rare) A barrier or fortification formed by pickets; a stockade. ¹
3. Noun. A boundary guarded by a picket, or unit, of soldiers. ¹
4. Noun. (American English) The boundary created by striking workers, generally at the workplace entrance, which other workers are asked not to pass. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picket Line
Literary usage of Picket line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1882)
"One of these companies of a hundred goes into a sort of camp about a half-mile
from the picket-line,—usually in a woods or near by a spring, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore (1866)
"The general 'iirc'Ption of our line of battle is a little cast of north, and is
very well fortified ; our front is covered by a picket-line of two (2) ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The picket-line is 15 yards in rear of the caissons; It is stretched between
posts about six feet high, the ends being firmly secured; the horses are tied ..."
4. Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army by Philip Henry Sheridan (1888)
"RIDING OVER THE BATTLE-FIELD DESTRUCTION OF BAZEILLES MISTAKES OF THE FRENCH
MARSHAL BAZAINE ON TO PARIS A WEEK IN MEAUX RHEIMS—ON THE PICKET-LINE—UNDER ..."
5. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A Complete Record of the by Josiah Rhinehart Sypher (1865)
"... the enemy's left—The Reserves in the advance—The fight on Tuesday night—The
picket line on the field—Battle of Antietam—Desperate fighting—Field won, ..."
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