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"
Definition of 'picket'
Webster 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
Sense: (any one of) a number of people employed at a factory etc who are on strike and who try to persuade workers not to go to work there, not to deliver goods there etc The men set up a picket to stop lorries getting into the factory; (