Definitions for picket

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picket pick·et

Spelling: [pik-it]

IPA: /ˈpɪk ɪt/

Picket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in picket (ceikpt).

Definitions for picket

noun

1. a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
2. a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike.
3. a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies or actions, before an embassy, office building, construction project, etc.
4. Military. a soldier or detachment of soldiers placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.
5. Navy, Air Force. an aircraft or ship performing similar sentinel duty.

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose within a picket fence or stockade, as for protection, imprisonment, etc.:
2. to fasten or tether to a picket.
3. to place pickets in front of or around (a factory, store, mine, embassy, etc.), as during a strike or demonstration.
4. Military. to guard, as with pickets. to post as a picket.

verb (used without object)

1. to stand or march as a picket.

Origin of picket

From the French word piquet, dating back to 1680-90. See pike², -et

Examples for picket

That shall go with my soldier to battle, and stand with my picket on guard.

Yet the teachers are angrily rejecting it and taking to the picket line.

Truitt came late to abstraction, by way of pictures of picket fences.

Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.

He did not care, now, if he were halted by a British picket or sentinel.

Some time about the middle of June, the picket line was taken up.

A bar chart showing quarterly GDP growth resembles the teeth of a saw, not a picket fence.

From there, groups of one or two hundred went to picket locations, including Bank of America.

The Captain had moored Daniel to a picket in the fence over by the freight-house.

If we take it in succession to do picket and outlook duty, the enemy will be less able to harry us.