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Noun: picket pikit- A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout - A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- A protester posted by a labour organization outside a place of work
- A vehicle performing sentinel duty
- A wooden strip forming part of a fence
- pale - 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
Verb: picket pikit- Serve as pickets or post pickets
"picket a business to protest the layoffs" - Fasten with a picket
"picket the goat"
Derived forms: pickets, picketing, picketed Type of: demonstrate, demonstrator, detachment, fasten, fix, march, military vehicle, protester, protestor, secure, security guard, strip, torture, torturing, watcher, watchman Part of: paling, picket fence Encyclopedia: Picket |