picket
Pronunciation:
/ˈpɪkɪt//ˈpɪkɪt/noun
Definitions
A stake driven into the ground.
Example: a picket fence
A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
verb
Definitions
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
Example: to picket a horse
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.