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Picket   /pˈɪkɪt/   Listen
Picket

noun
1.
A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.  Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch.
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.  Synonym: pale.
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.  Synonym: piquet.
verb
(past & past part. picketed; pres. part. picketing)
1.
Serve as pickets or post pickets.
2.
Fasten with a picket.



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"Picket" Quotes from Famous Books



... other remedy. Before I go to sleep, I'll picket the horses close beside me; and if you steal away on foot during the night, I'll ride you down a few hours after daybreak. I think you understand me. There's ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... of a new coat of white paint. The elms dwindled away and an occasional maple dotted the common with shade. The driver guided the patient gray to the left and, near the centre of the common, drew up in front of a little white house, which, like the picket fence in front of it, the flagstaff on the common, and so many other things in Eden Village, seemed to ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... were on the point of entering the old dwelling house, and seemingly were unaccompanied by any others. Sam happened fortunately to be standing in shadow, and they passed without seeing him. But what was he now to do? He was at the back of the house, and a high picket fence around the place made it impossible for him to escape by the front-way, towards which the savages had gone. Looking through the door-way, he saw that the pair had passed through the room nearest him ...
— The Big Brother - A Story of Indian War • George Cary Eggleston
... objection, Senor Americano, I will let my horse picket awhile, and rest myself; for I have ridden many miles since sunrise, and not a blessed 'barego' have ...
— Inez - A Tale of the Alamo • Augusta J. Evans
... the picket, the regiments went forward, just as a desultory firing from the front showed that the alarm had been given by Sullivan's attack. Pushing on, a sight of the enemy was gained,—a confused mass of men some three hundred yards away, but in front of them two guns were already being wheeled into ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford


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