'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
  • Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See Pique, Pike, and Picket.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.] [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'picket'

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