picket
noun
1. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Similar word(s): lookout, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch
Definition categories: person, watcher, watchman
2. a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
Definition categories: group, detachment
3. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
Definition categories: person, demonstrator, protester
4. a vehicle performing sentinel duty
Definition categories: man–made
5. a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Similar word(s): pale
Definition categories: man–made, strip
6. 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
Similar word(s): piquet
Definition categories: act, torture, torturing
Sentences with picket as a noun:
- a picket fence
- Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.