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picket
[ pik-it ]
noun
- a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
- a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike.
- a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies or actions, before an embassy, office building, construction project, etc.
- Military. a soldier or detachment of soldiers placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.
- Navy, Air Force. an aircraft or ship performing similar sentinel duty.
verb (used with object)
- to enclose within a picket fence or stockade, as for protection, imprisonment, etc.:
to picket a lawn; to picket captives.
- to fasten or tether to a picket.
- to place pickets in front of or around (a factory, store, mine, embassy, etc.), as during a strike or demonstration.
- Military.
- to guard, as with pickets.
- to post as a picket.
verb (used without object)
- to stand or march as a picket.
picket
/ ˈpɪkɪt /
noun
- a pointed stake, post, or peg that is driven into the ground to support a fence, provide a marker for surveying, etc
- an individual or group that stands outside an establishment to make a protest, to dissuade or prevent employees or clients from entering, etc
- Alsopicquet a small detachment of troops or warships positioned towards the enemy to give early warning of attack
verb
- to post or serve as pickets at (a factory, embassy, etc)
let's go and picket the shop
- to guard (a main body or place) by using or acting as a picket
- tr to fasten (a horse or other animal) to a picket
- tr to fence (an area, boundary, etc) with pickets
Derived Forms
- ˈpicketer, noun
Other Words From
- pick·et·er noun
- coun·ter·pick·et noun verb
- un·pick·et·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of picket1
Word History and Origins
Origin of picket1
Example Sentences
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
A bar chart showing quarterly GDP growth resembles the teeth of a saw, not a picket fence.
After the march, the political convoy of picket-signs makes its way to a grandiose fast-food joint for pizza and beer.
The one we parked in front of had an Astroturf lawn and white picket fence.
She leapt over the brand-new white picket fence we built for her in a single bound.
Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.
Hicks was puttering around the fire, evidently cooking supper, and Gregory was moving the picket rope of his horse to fresh grass.
It was therefore deemed advisable to picket the horses close to the tent, between it and the fire.
Left on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.
Without warning, we found ourselves foul of a picket-line, and the vague forms of grazing horses loomed close by.
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