1) Fasten with a picket 2) Fence component 3) Fence part 4) Fence post 5) Fence post type 6) Fence stake 7) French word used in English 8) Lookout 9) Lookout man 10) Paling 11) Rally against 12) Scout 13) Security guard 14) Sentinel 15) Sentry 16) Spotter 17) Striker, often 18) Type of fence 19) Watch
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1) Lookout 2) Pale 3) Protector 4) Scout 5) Sentinel 6) Sentry 7) Slat
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- a person employed to watch for something to happen
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
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[military] In military terminology, a picket (archaically, picquet [variant form piquet], refers to soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function. The term is from the British, dating from before 1735 ...
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[punishment] The picket, picquet or piquet was a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. It consisted in the offender being forced to stand on the narrow flat top of a peg for a period of time. The punishment died out in the 18th century and was so far unfamiliar by 1800 that Sir Thomas Picton, who ord...
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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. • (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences. • (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet. • (v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. • (v. t.) To guard,...
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1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. ... 2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences. ... 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses. ... A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoite...
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A person, or persons, posted at the entrance of a place of work which is affected by a strike, in order to stop people entering the premises
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Pick'et noun [ French
piquet , properly dim. of
pique spear, pike. See
Pike , and confer
Piquet .]
1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
2. A point...
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Pick'et transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Picketed ;
present participle & verbal noun Picketing .]
1. To fortify with pointed stakes.
2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
3. To tether to, or...
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n] - a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work 2. [n] - a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack 3. [n] - a vehicle performing sentinel duty 4. [n] - a wooden strip forming part of a fence 5. [v] - serve as pickets or post pickets 6. [v] - fasten with a picket
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pale noun a wooden strip forming part of a fence
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