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picket
('p/I/k/I/t )

noun (n)

  • a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch
    source: wordnet30
  • a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack(noun.group)
    source: wordnet30
  • a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work(noun.person)
    source: wordnet30
  • a vehicle performing sentinel duty(noun.artifact)
    source: wordnet30
  • a wooden strip forming part of a fence(noun.artifact)
    Synonym:
    pale
    source: wordnet30
  • 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(noun.act)
    Synonym:
    piquet
    source: wordnet30
  • A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • serve as pickets or post pickets(verb.social)
    Example:
    Picket a business to protest the layoffs.
    source: wordnet30
  • fasten with a picket(verb.contact)
    Example:
    Picket the goat.
    source: wordnet30
  • To fortify with pointed stakes.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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