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What (who) is picket line - definition

ROPE USED TO TETHER HORSES
Picket rope; Picket pin
  • Horses tied on chest-height picket lines

picket line         
(picket lines)
A picket line is a group of pickets outside a place of work.
No one tried to cross the picket lines.
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Picket line         
A picket line is a horizontal rope along which horses are tied at intervals. The rope can be on the ground, at chest height (above the knees, below the neck) or overhead.
Picket Lake, Minnesota         
UNORGANIZED TERRITORY IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES
Picket Lake, MN
Picket Lake is an unorganized territory located in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was zero.

Wikipedia

Picket line

A picket line is a horizontal rope along which horses are tied at intervals. The rope can be on the ground, at chest height (above the knees, below the neck) or overhead. The overhead form is usually called a high line.

A variant of a high line, used to tie a single horse, is a horizontal pole attached high on the side of a horse trailer. The attachment is designed so that the pole can be removed or folded against the trailer when not in use.

Examples of use of picket line
1. Six hundred nurses have refused to cross the picket line.
2. A collective shudder passed along the picket line.
3. By Ann Treneman TO GET into the Commons yesterday, you had to cross a picket line.
4. Toussaint adamantly denied that so many people had crossed the picket line.
5. "Think about a president of the United States walking a picket line," Edwards said.