picketing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Picketing.]

1.To fortify with pointed stakes. [1913 Webster]

2.To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. [1913 Webster]

3.To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. [1913 Webster]

4.To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. [1913 Webster]

5.To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]