Definition of Picket

Noun

• 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
  piquet
• a wooden strip forming part of a fence
  pale
• a vehicle performing sentinel duty
  
• a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
  
• a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
  
• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  lookout - lookout man sentinel sentry watch spotter scout

Verb

• fasten with a picket
  "picket the goat"
  
• serve as pickets or post pickets
  "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
  

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