Picket ¹

Definition: A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

Picket ²

Definition: A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

Picket ³

Definition: A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; called also outlying picket.

Picket ⁴

Definition: By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.

Picket ⁵

Definition: A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Picket ⁶

Definition: A game at cards. See Piquet.

Picket ⁷

Definition: To fortify with pointed stakes.

Picket ⁸

Definition: To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

Picket ⁹

Definition: To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

Picket ¹⁰

Definition: To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

Picket ¹¹

Definition: To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

picket ¹²

Definition: a wooden strip forming part of a fence

picket ¹³

Definition: a vehicle performing sentinel duty

picket ¹⁴

Definition: a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

picket ¹⁵

Definition: a person employed to watch for something to happen

picket ¹⁶

Definition: a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

picket ¹⁷

Definition: fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"

picket ¹⁸

Definition: serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the lay-offs"