PICKET

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.

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picket

Noun

  1. A stake driven into the ground.
  2. A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
  3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
  4. 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.
  5. A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
  6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
  7. The card game piquet.

Verb

  1. To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
  2. To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
  3. To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
    to picket a horse
  4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
  5. To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.


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