Meaning of Picket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A stake driven into the ground.
   countable, uncountable
3. A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
   countable, historical, uncountable
4. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
   countable, uncountable
5. One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
   countable, uncountable
6. A sentry.
   countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable
7. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
   countable, uncountable
8. The card game piquet.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“a picket fence”

“So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post⟳ pickets to watch⟳ the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.”

“Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take⟳ the risk⟳ of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last⟳ the hacienda rose blackly before them.”

“Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.”

“In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.”

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