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English Dictionary: picket	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for picket
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
picket n a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event Synonym(s): lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work a vehicle performing sentinel duty a wooden strip forming part of a fence Synonym(s): picket, pale 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(s): picket, piquet v serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs" fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picket \Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See {Pike}, and cf. {Piquet}.] 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.] (Mil.) 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 labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Picketing}.] 1. To fortify with pointed stakes. 2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. 3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. 4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. 5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]