a fence made of thin flat boards that are pointed at the top. People think of picket fences as typical of houses in small middle-class towns in the US.
Synonyms and related words
Fences and boundaries
abuttals
balustrade
barbed wire
picket fence
noun countable
US
Word Forms
singular
picket fence
plural
picket fences
DEFINITIONS1
1
a fence made of thin flat boards that are pointed at the top. People think of picket fences as typical of houses in small middle-class towns in the U.S.