Dictionary Entry

picket

picket is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 19 senses

Definitions

1noun
A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
2noun
A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
3noun
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
4noun
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.
5noun
A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
6noun
A game at cards. See Piquet.
7transitive verb
To fortify with pointed stakes.
8transitive verb
To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
9transitive verb
To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
10transitive verb
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
11transitive verb
To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
12noun
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
Synonyms
piquet
13noun
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Synonyms
pale
14noun
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
15noun
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
16noun
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Synonyms
lookout scout sentinel sentry spotter watch
17noun
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
18verb
fasten with a picket
"picket the goat"
19verb
serve as pickets or post pickets
"picket a business to protest the layoffs"

Synonyms

piquet pale lookout scout sentinel sentry spotter watch

Common word forms

pickets picketed picketer picketing

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