picket
Nouns
- (n) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch,
- (n) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- (n) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- (n) a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- (n) a wooden strip forming part of a fence pale,
- (n) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake piquet,
Verbs
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(v) serve as pickets or post pickets
- picket a business to protest the layoffs
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(v) fasten with a picket
- picket the goat