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picket   (TTS Sound)

The noun picket has 6 senses

• lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket -- (a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event)


• picket -- (a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack)


• picket -- (a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work)


• picket -- (a vehicle performing sentinel duty)


• picket, pale -- (a wooden strip forming part of a fence)


• picket, piquet -- (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)

The verb picket has 2 senses

• picket -- (serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs")


• picket -- (fasten with a picket; "picket the goat")