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The Meaning of picket
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(n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
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(n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
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(n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
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(n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
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(n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
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(n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
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(v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
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(v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
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(v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
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(v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
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(v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Synonyms
lookout
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lookout man
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sentinel
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sentry
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watch
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spotter
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scout
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pale
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piquet
Homophones
pickett
Rhymes
bickett
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cricket
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fickett
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pickett
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prickett
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rickett
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thicket
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ticket
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trickett
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wicket
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wickett