picket

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Synonyms: picked, pocket, picker, pricket, ticket, packet, wicket, pickett, pickel, picken, picke

Antonyms: picked, pocket, picker, pricket, ticket, packet, wicket, pickett, pickel, picken, picke

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Noun

1. A [[stake]] driven into the ground.
2. {{lb|en|historical}} A type of [[punishment]] by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small [[stake]].
3. A [[tool]] in [[mountaineering]] that is driven into the snow and used as an [[anchor]] or to arrest falls.
4. {{lb|en|military}} 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.
5. {{lb|en|sometimes|figurative}} A [[sentry]].
6. A [[protester]] positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a [[strike]] (usually in plural); also the [[protest]] itself.
7. {{lb|en|card games|uncountable}} The [[card game]] [[piquet]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[protest]], organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[enclose]] or [[fortify]] with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[tether]] to, or as if to, a picket.
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[guard]], as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. {{lb|en|obsolete|transitive}} To [[torture]] by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en}}.

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