Dictionary Definition
picket
Noun
1 a person employed to watch for something to
happen [syn: lookout,
lookout
man, sentinel,
sentry, watch, spotter, scout]
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 [syn:
pale]
Verb
1 serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a
business to protest the lay-offs"
2 fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪkɪt
Noun
- A stake driven into
the ground.
- A picket fence.
- A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protest organized
by a labour
union.
- Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
- Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to
warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for
example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- Pickets warned of enemy troops approaching from the west.
Translations
a stake driven into the ground
- Finnish: paalu
a protest organized by a labour union
- Finnish: mielenosoitus
- Spanish: piquete
- Japanese: ピケット (piketto)
Soldiers or troops
- Finnish: etuvartio
Verb
- to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.
See also
Extensive Definition
Picket may refer to:
- Picket (climbing), a metal rod used for mountaineering
- Picket (military), an advance group for a larger military body.
- Picket, a vertical plank of a picket fence
- Picket, the act of picketing
- Wilson Pickett, an American singer
- Bobby 'Boris' Pickett, an American singer
picket in French: Piquet
picket in Russian: Пикет
picket in Ukrainian: Пікет
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Argus,
Charley, advance guard,
airplane spotter, anchor,
armed guard, bank guard, bar, beef, bind, bitch, blockade, boggle, box in, boycott, bridle, bulkhead in, call in
question, chain, challenge, coast guard,
complain, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cry out
against, demonstrate, demonstrate
against, demonstrator, demur, dismember, dispute, draw and quarter,
enchain, enclose, enter a protest,
entrammel, expostulate, fasten, fence, fence in, fetter, fire patrolman, fire
warden, fireguard,
flying squadron, forward observer, garrison, go on strike, go out,
goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, goon, goon squad, grill, guard, guarder, guardsman, gyve, hamper, handcuff, hedge, hem, hem in, hobble, hog-tie, hold out,
holler, hopple, howl, impale, inlying picket, jailer, keelhaul, kick, lash, leash, leg, lock out, lookout, lookout man, make fast,
manacle, march, moor, night watchman, object, observer, outguard, outpost, pale, paling, palisade, patrol, patroller, patrolman, peg, peg down, picket line, picketer, picquet, pile, pin down, pinion, post, press objections, protest, protester, put in irons,
rack, rail, raise a howl, rally, rear guard, remonstrate, restrain, revolt, rope, roundsman, scout, scruple, secure, security guard, sentinel, sentry, shackle, shank, shut in, shut it down, sit
down, sit in, slow down, spile, spotter, squawk, stake, stanchion, state a grievance,
straitjacket,
strap, strike, striker, strong-arm man, tar and
feather, teach in, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, torture, train guard, trammel, upright, van, vanguard, vedette, vertical, walk out, wall, wall in, ward, warder, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman, yell bloody
murder