Picket

Quick meaning: Picket is a noun meaning A stake driven into the ground.

Meaning

A stake driven into the ground.

More Meanings

1. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
2. (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
3. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
4. (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
5. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
6. (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
7. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

Example Sentences

a picket fence

to picket a horse

Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

[T]he Moors kept a good Guard all Night, and did not unſaddle their Horſes, but picketted them before the Tent-Doors; […]

Word Forms

• pickets
• picketing
• picketting
• picketed
• picketted

Synonyms for picket

Depending on context, synonyms include sentry, scout, watch, pale, lookout, sentinel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sentry, sentinel, watch, scout, lookout, pale.

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