Picketting

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

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.

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