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Definition of 'picket'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A stake driven into the ground.
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(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.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
(military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- 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.
A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
* {{quote-book|year=1907|author=
|chapter=26|title= The Dust of Conflict
|passage=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.}}
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
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* |chapter=22
|title= The Mirror and the Lamp
|passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
(card games) The card game piquet.
Verb
( en-verb)
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- to picket a horse
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Derived terms
* picket line
* picketing
* unpicketed
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