Definition of Picket

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Picket

A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

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.

A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

A game at cards. See Piquet.

To fortify with pointed stakes.

To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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Picket Quotations

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
Paul Robeson

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
Camryn Manheim

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Edward Koch

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.
Julian Bond

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
Matt Dillon

Picket Translations

picket in German is Streikposten, Pfahl
picket in Spanish is piquete
picket in Swedish is stake, strejkvakt, piket

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