Picketed

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picketed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Picketing}.]
     1. To fortify with pointed stakes.
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     2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.


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     3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
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     4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
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     5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a
        pointed stake. [Obs.]
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