picket
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Is picket a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of picket?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.countablehistoricaluncountable
2. (military) 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.Examples: "So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there."countableuncountable
3. (sometimes figurative) A sentry.Examples: "Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them."countablefigurativelysometimesuncountable
4. (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.uncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.intransitive
2. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.Examples: "One of the most striking was the silver pin presented to all members of the National Women’s Party who served time for picketting the White House for women’s suffrage."transitive
3. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.Examples: "to picket a horse"; "[T]he Moors kept a good Guard all Night, and did not unſaddle their Horſes, but picketted them before the Tent-Doors; […]"; "[F]rom the outskirts of the fair, where are picketted the horses and the herds for sale, comes the tinkle of bells, a mule’s shrill scream, mingled with the music of a guitar or the rattle of castanets."transitive
4. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.transitive
5. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary