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Definition of Picket
1. Noun. A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
Generic synonyms: Security Guard, Watcher, Watchman
Derivative terms: Look Out, Spot, Watch
2. Verb. Serve as pickets or post pickets. "Picket a business to protest the layoffs"
3. Noun. A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack.
4. Verb. Fasten with a picket. "Picket the goat"
5. Noun. A protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work.
6. Noun. A vehicle performing sentinel duty.
Specialized synonyms: Picket Boat, Picket Ship
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
7. Noun. A wooden strip forming part of a fence.
8. Noun. 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.
Definition of Picket
1. n. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
2. v. t. To fortify with pointed stakes.
Definition of Picket
1. to stand outside of some location, as a business, to publicize one's grievances against it [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Picket
1. 1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. 2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences. 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses. 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. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labour organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. 5. A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. 6. A game at cards. See Piquet. Inlying picket A position held and guarded by small bodies of men placed at intervals. A rope to which horses are secured when groomed. Picketpin, an iron pin for picketing horses. Origin: F. Piquet, properly dim. Of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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