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picket

/ˈpɪkɪt/noun, verb2 syllables

Picket means: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.

Synonyms for picket8

noun, as in a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

lookout, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout

noun, as in a wooden strip forming part of a fence

pale

noun, as in 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

piquet

What does picket mean?8

noun

1

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

2

a wooden strip forming part of a fence

3

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

4

a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

5

a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

6

a vehicle performing sentinel duty

verb

1

serve as pickets or post pickets“picket a business to protest the layoffs”

2

fasten with a picket“picket the goat”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Picket in a sentence

  • The strikers hectored the few scabs courageous enough to cross the picket line.darinmex
  • I didn't want to cross the picket line.CK
  • I don't want to cross the picket line.CK
  • I want a house with a big yard and a white picket fence.CK
  • Tom wants a house with a big yard and a white picket fence.Hybrid
  • Tom did not want to cross the picket line.Hybrid
  • Tom didn't want to cross the picket line.CK
  • I doubt that Tom has the courage to cross the picket line.CK

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of picket

as a noun

plural
pickets

as a verb

past tense
picketed
present participle
picketing
third-person singular
pickets
past participle
picketed