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1. (noun) lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

2. (noun) picket
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

3. (noun) picket
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

4. (noun) picket
a vehicle performing sentinel duty

5. (noun) picket, pale
a wooden strip forming part of a fence

6. (verb) picket, piquet
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

7. (verb) picket
serve as pickets or post pickets
"picket a business to protest the layoffs"

8. (verb) picket
fasten with a picket
"picket the goat"

Definitions of 'picket'

Webster 1913 Dictionary

1. (noun) picket
a stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses

2. (noun) picket
a pointed pale, used in marking fences

3. (noun) picket
a detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket

4. (noun) picket
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

5. (noun) picket
a military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

6. (noun) picket
a game at cards. See Piquet

7. (verb) picket
to fortify with pointed stakes

8. (verb) picket
to inclose or fence with pickets or pales

9. (verb) picket
to tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse

10. (verb) picket
to guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket

11. (verb) picket
to torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

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