📖 Definitions of "Picket"
noun
- 1
A stake driven into the ground.
"a picket fence"
- 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
One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
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.
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