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Picket   /pˈɪkɪt/   Listen
Picket

noun
1.
A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.  Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch.
2.
A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack.
3.
A protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work.
4.
A vehicle performing sentinel duty.
5.
A wooden strip forming part of a fence.  Synonym: pale.
6.
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.  Synonym: piquet.
verb
(past & past part. picketed; pres. part. picketing)
1.
Serve as pickets or post pickets.
2.
Fasten with a picket.



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"Picket" Quotes from Famous Books



... distribution of wealth in the world. Some of the best-known people in the country were openly taking the ground that the poor man was not getting a "square deal." To sympathize with organized labor was no longer "bad form," some society women even doing picket duty for Jewish factory-girls out ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... name of the commune, to sequester the objects belonging to the church Sainte-Marguerite, in the little borough of St. Antoine. A picket of 10 national guards is in permanence in the church to ...
— The Insurrection in Paris • An Englishman: Davy
... also employed in connexion with "obstacles" in field fortifications, especially in what are known as "high wire entanglements." Pointed stakes or "pickets," 4 ft. high, are planted in rows and secured by ordinary wire to holdfasts or pegs in the ground. Each picket is connected to all around it, top and bottom, by lengths ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various
... receiver of the telephone which communicated with the watchful picket of the Marston & Waller offices. "Who? Oh, she ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... small stature but very thickset, with their wide smooth faces, loose clothing of sheepskin with the wool outside, with their long coarse hair flying in the wind, and their uncouth shouts in a barbarous tongue, are much like savages. They sing wild chants as they picket their sheep in long double lines at night, and with their savage mastiffs sleep unsheltered under the frosty skies under the lee of their piled-up saddlebags. On three nights I camped beside their caravans, and walked round their orderly ...
— Among the Tibetans • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs Bishop)


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