Definitions for picket
ˈpɪk ɪtpick·et

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket(noun)

   a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

2. picket(noun)

   a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

3. picket(noun)

   a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

4. picket(noun)

   a vehicle performing sentinel duty

5. picket, pale(noun)

   a wooden strip forming part of a fence

6. picket, piquet(verb)

   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. picket(verb)

   serve as pickets or post pickets

   "picket a business to protest the layoffs"

8. picket(verb)

   fasten with a picket

   "picket the goat"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. picket(Noun)

   A stake driven into the ground.

   A picket fence.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

2. picket(Noun)

   A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

3. picket(Noun)

   A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

4. picket(Noun)

   Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

5. picket(Noun)

   A sentry. Can be used figuratively.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

6. picket(Noun)

   A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

   Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

7. picket(Verb)

   to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.

   Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Picket(noun)

   a stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

2. Picket(noun)

   a pointed pale, used in marking fences

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

3. Picket(noun)

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

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

4. Picket(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

5. Picket(noun)

   a military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

6. Picket(noun)

   a game at cards. See Piquet

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

7. Picket(verb)

   to fortify with pointed stakes

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

8. Picket(verb)

   to inclose or fence with pickets or pales

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

9. Picket(verb)

   to tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse

   Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

10. Picket(verb)

    to guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket

    Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

11. Picket(verb)

    to torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

    Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Picket

   In military terminology, a picket refers to soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit performing a similar function. The term is from the British, dating from before 1735 and probably much earlier. In modern military terms it refers to a soldier or small group of soldiers maintaining a watch. This may mean a watch for the enemy, or other types of watch i.e. "fire picket". A staggered picket consists of, for example, two soldiers where one soldier is relieved at a time. This is so that on any given picket one soldier is fresh, having just started the picket, while the other is ready to be relieved. Although each soldier is required to maintain watch for the full duration of a shift, halfway through each shift a new soldier is put on watch. Staggered pickets are consequently more difficult to plan than standard pickets.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Picket

   pik′et, n. a pointed stake used in fortification: a small outpost or guard stationed in front of an army: a number of men sent out by a trades-union to prevent others from working against the wishes or decisions of the union: a game at cards: a punishment inflicted by making a person stand on one foot on a pointed stake.—v.i. to fasten to a stake, as a horse: to post a vanguard: to place a picket at or near.—ns. Pick′et-fence, a fence of pickets or pales; Pick′et-guard, a guard kept in readiness in case of alarm. [Fr. piquet, dim. of pic, a pickaxe.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. picket

   A pointed staff or stake driven into the ground for various military purposes, as the marking out plans of works, the securing horses to, &c. (See also PIQUET, an outguard.)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. picket

   A detachment composed of cavalry or infantry, whose principal duty is to guard an army from surprise and oppose such small parties as the enemy may push forward for the purpose of reconnoitring.

2. picket

   A sharp stake used for securing the fascines of a battery, or fastening the tent-ropes of a camp, etc.

3. picket

   To fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. Also, to fasten to a picket, as a horse while grazing.

How to pronounce picket?

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   Daniel

   British

   

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   Australian

   

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of picket in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of picket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of picket in a Sentence

1. Aimee Bartek-Regnier:

   My white picket fence, my trellis, everything you'd identify my house with was gone, we're just waiting on a picture so that we can have our closure that way. I've known since Friday that our house was gone.

2. Justice Potter Stewart:

   The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.

3. Austin Beutner:

   I was asked yesterday by someone why I didn't just join teachers on the picket line, close our schools, and go to Sacramento( to) fight for more funding. Ninety percent of our funding comes from Sacramento, after all. ... It's a fair question, then I thought for a moment about Virgil Middle School and Telfair Elementary School.

4. Edward Irving Koch:

   If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

5. Minister Louis Farrakhan:

   But when one of us shows some independence, look how you treating Beyoncé now, you gonna picket. You not going to offer her police protection? But the (Fruit of Islam, the security branch of his organization,) will.

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