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Meaning of picket in English
Pronunciation
/ˈpɪkɪt/
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Verb
picket
Definitions
1.
serve as pickets or post pickets
Examples
« picket a business to protest the lay-offs »
2.
fasten with a picket
Examples
« picket the goat »
Noun
picket
Etymology
late 17th century (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet‘pointed stake’, from piquer‘to prick’, from pic‘pike’
Definitions
1.
a person employed to watch for something to happen
2.
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
3.
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
4.
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
5.
a wooden strip forming part of a fence