Found 3 items, similar to Picket.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: picket
tiang pancang
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: picket
picket
n 1: a person employed to watch for something to happen [syn:
lookout,
lookout man,
sentinel,
sentry,
watch,
spotter,
scout]
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 [syn:
pale]
picket
v 1: serve as pickets or post pickets;
“picket a business to
protest the lay-offs”
2: fasten with a picket;
“picket the goat”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Picket
Picket
\Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear,
pike. See
Pike, and cf.
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.
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2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
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3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.]
(Mil.) 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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4. 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. [Cant]
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5. 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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6. A game at cards. See
Piquet.
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Inlying picket (Mil.), a detachment of troops held in camp
or quarters, detailed to march if called upon.
Picket fence, a fence made of pickets. See def. 2, above.
Picket guard (Mil.), a guard of horse and foot, always in
readiness in case of alarm.
Picket line. (Mil.)
(a) A position held and guarded by small bodies of men
placed at intervals.
(b) A rope to which horses are secured when groomed.
Picketpin, an iron pin for picketing horses.
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Picket
\Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Picketed; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Picketing.]
1. To fortify with pointed stakes.
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2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
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3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
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4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
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5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a
pointed stake. [Obs.]
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