'Picket' definitions:
Definition of 'picket'
From: WordNet
noun
A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket]
noun
A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
noun
A protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
noun
A vehicle performing sentinel duty
noun
A wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: picket, pale]
noun
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 [syn: picket, piquet]
verb
Serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
verb
Fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
Definition of 'Picket'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Picket'
From: GCIDE
- Picket \Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]
- 1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.] (Mil.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. [1913 Webster]
- 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 5. A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A game at cards. See Piquet. [1913 Webster]
- Inlying picket (Mil.), a detachment of troops held in camp or quarters, detailed to march if called upon.
- Picket fence, a fence made of pickets. See def. 2, above.
- Picket guard (Mil.), a guard of horse and foot, always in readiness in case of alarm.
- Picket line. (Mil.) (a) A position held and guarded by small bodies of men placed at intervals. (b) A rope to which horses are secured when groomed.
- Picketpin, an iron pin for picketing horses. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'picket'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'picket'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance guard,
- airplane spotter,
- anchor,
- Argus,
- armed guard,
- bank guard,
- bar,
- beef,
- bind,
- bitch,
- blockade,
- boggle,
- box in,
- boycott,
- bridle,
- bulkhead in,
- call in question,
- chain,
- challenge,
- Charley,
- coast guard,
- complain,
- cordon,
- cordon sanitaire,
- cry out against,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demonstrator,
- demur,
- dismember,
- dispute,
- draw and quarter,
- enchain,
- enclose,
- enter a protest,
- entrammel,
- expostulate,
- fasten,
- fence,
- fence in,
- fetter,
- fire patrolman,
- fire warden,
- fireguard,
- flying squadron,
- forward observer,
- garrison,
- go on strike,
- go out,
- goalie,
- goalkeeper,
- goaltender,
- goon,
- goon squad,
- grill,
- guard,
- guarder,
- guardsman,
- gyve,
- hamper,
- handcuff,
- hedge,
- hem,
- hem in,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hold out,
- holler,
- hopple,
- howl,
- impale,
- inlying picket,
- jailer,
- keelhaul,
- kick,
- lash,
- leash,
- leg,
- lock out,
- lookout,
- lookout man,
- make fast,
- manacle,
- march,
- moor,
- night watchman,
- object,
- observer,
- outguard,
- outpost,
- pale,
- paling,
- palisade,
- patrol,
- patroller,
- patrolman,
- peg,
- peg down,
- picket line,
- picketer,
- picquet,
- pile,
- pin down,
- pinion,
- post,
- press objections,
- protest,
- protester,
- put in irons,
- rack,
- rail,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- rear guard,
- remonstrate,
- restrain,
- revolt,
- rope,
- roundsman,
- scout,
- scruple,
- secure,
- security guard,
- sentinel,
- sentry,
- shackle,
- shank,
- shut in,
- shut it down,
- sit down,
- sit in,
- slow down,
- spile,
- spotter,
- squawk,
- stake,
- stanchion,
- state a grievance,
- straitjacket,
- strap,
- strike,
- striker,
- strong-arm man,
- tar and feather,
- teach in,
- tether,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie up,
- torture,
- train guard,
- trammel,
- upright,
- van,
- vanguard,
- vedette,
- vertical,
- walk out,
- wall,
- wall in,
- ward,
- warder,
- watch,
- watcher,
- watchkeeper,
- watchman,
- yell bloody murder