picket (n.)

  1. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

    [ Syn: lookout , lookout man , sentinel , sentry , watch , spotter , scout ]

  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

    [ Syn: 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

    [ Syn: piquet ]

    picket (v.)

  1. serve as pickets or post pickets; picket a business to protest the layoffs'

  2. fasten with a picket; picket the goat'

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