Definition of Picket

Noun: picket  pi-kit

  1. A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
    - lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout
     
  2. A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
     
  3. A protester posted by a labour organization outside a place of work
     
  4. (military) a vehicle performing sentinel duty
     
  5. A wooden strip forming part of a fence
    - pale
     
  6. 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
Verb: picket  pi-kit
  1. Serve as pickets or post pickets
    "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
     
  2. Fasten with a picket
    "picket the goat"

See also:
pickers
picketboat

Anagrams containing the word picket

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