picket

Meaning 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.
  5. (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
  6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
    Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
  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.

Information about picket

  • The plural form of picket is: pickets.
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Hyphenation of picket

picket

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • picket is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

picket synonyms

Meaning lookout:

lookout, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout

Meaning pale:

pale

Meaning piquet:

piquet

Words that rhyme with picket

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