Picket

Definitions: Picket

Picket

Noun

1. A person employed to watch for something to happen.

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.

Verb

1. Serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the lay-offs".

2. Fasten with a picket; "picket the goat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "picket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Picket

Circumscription

Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.

Combatant

Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers.

Defense

Garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian; (safety); bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.

Punishment

Torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.

Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.

Restraint

Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).

Warning

Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.

Crosswords: Picket

Italian (piquet).

? To get our hopes up? To promise us we was gunna have a big house with a tire swing, vanity, and a picket fence, and then just leave, again? (The War; writing credit: Kathy McWorter)

I'll picket your whole country! (Ninotchka; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Charles Brackett)

--to picket the big bad chain store-- (You've Got Mail; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

Picket signs for my wicked rhymes, look at the times (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem)

The Picket Guard (1913)

Picket Fences (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A White Picket Fence (reference)

• Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (reference)

• How to Grow a Picket Fence (reference)

• Picket Fence Messages: 54 Stickers; 6 Each of 9 Designs (reference)

• Tales from the Picket Line (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Nesco 4208-42-30 18-Quart Electric Roaster with Nonstick Cookwell, Picket Fence Pattern (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Advance picket on San Juan Road between Coamo and Abonito, Puerto Rico].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

General arrangement plan published in "Submarine Warfare, Offensive and Defensive", by Lieutenant Commander J.S. Barnes, USN, 1869. The drawing also includes detail drawings of the spar torpedo carried by this boat. This craft is similar to Picket Boat No. 1, which was used by Lieutenant William B. Cushing to sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle on the night of 27-28 October 1864.Credit: NAVY.

Photograph of a general arrangement drawing of the boat and its spar torpedo. The original plan appears to be of 19th Century vintage and is drawn on cloth. Lieutenant William B. Cushing used U.S. Navy Picket Boat No. 1 to sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle on the night of 27-28 October 1864.Credit: NAVY.

House with picket fence next to "Lee Bros. Family Groceries".Credit: Library of Congress.

African American man standing at tall picket fence in front of house.Credit: Library of Congress.

Era of the picket.Credit: Library of Congress.

The pistol packing picket.Credit: Library of Congress.

Howard University students picket the National Crime Conference in Washington, D.C., Dec., 1934 when the leaders of the conference refused to discuss lynching as a national crime / p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by International News Photo Co..

Wives of jailed communists picket.Credit: Library of Congress.

White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in fron.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He was lean as a picket.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

This right may be limited in the interest of security and public order, and the Police Act requires police permits for all public assemblies except for workers on picket lines. (references)

Belarus

Charges were dropped in one of the two cases, but the organizer of the picket was awaiting trial at year's end. (references)

Belarus

The SCRNA informed the group that "it would be offensive for Veterans to receive congratulations from the Jews." On September 26, authorities arrested two members of the Jewish community for holding an unsanctioned picket protesting the illegal destruction of a former synagogue in Minsk. (references)

Worker Rights

Malaysia

There were no strikes reported during the year, but in June 2000, 130 employees of a cooking oil refinery in Johor staged a peaceful picket line to protest a deadlock in negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement. (references)

Russia

Although the union had informed the local administration of its intentions, local militia arrested the protesters and charged them with participation in an illegal picket line. (references)

Russia

In May members of the elevator maintenance workers union in Vladivostok organized a picket line to protest wage arrears. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "picket": aerial picket ♦ air picket ♦ be on picket ♦ be on picket duty ♦ cross the picket line ♦ inlying picket ♦ outlying picket ♦ picket boat ♦ picket duty ♦ picket fence ♦ picket guard ♦ picket line ♦ picket lines ♦ picket rope ♦ picket ship ♦ radar picket ♦ secondary picket ♦ strike picket. Additional references.

Beginning with "picket": picket-fence, picket-line.

Ending with "picket": rent-a-picket.

Albanian

post roje (sentry go), piketoj (piquet), piketë (landmark, piquet, stake), vë rojë (piquet, post), rrethoj me kunj (pale, piquet), rrethoj me grevistë (piquet), rojë (custodian, escort, guard, guards, guardsman, janitor, keeper, look out, piquet, sentinel, sentry, vigil, ward, watchman), lidh kalin pas hurit (piquet), kunj (axle pin, dowel, hob, key, linchpin, peg, pin, pintle, piquet, Spike, spile, spline, tenon, toggle), hu (Dick, piquet, pole, post, roost, stake), gardhoj (block, encompass, fence, fence in, hedge, hinder, pale, piquet, rail). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفرزة طوارئ, ‏مرابطة نوبة مضربين, ‏ناظر الإضراب, ‏وتد (cleat, coin, dowel, nog, pad, pale, peg, pin, pole, spar, stake, wedge), ‏وضع خفيرا على, ‏عقل (brains, intellect, intelligence, layer, mentality, mind, pate, psyche, reason, sense, skull, steady, wit), ‏طوق بالاوتاد, ‏خفر (patrol), ‏رابط أمام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоя на стачен пост, стачен пост (piquet, strike picket), кол (pale, pile, piquet, pole, spile, upright), малък отряд, застава (barrier, piquet), закрепям с колове, закрепям с кол, заграждам с колове (stake), завързвам на кол, преден пост (outpost), поставям на стачен пост, поставям постове, дежурно поделение. (various references)

Chinese 

纠察队员, 樴 (stake). (various references)

Czech

postavit hlídky, upevnit (anchor, confine, consolidate, fasten, fix, forge, infix, make up, moor, plant, plant in, rivet, secure, ship, solidify, Spike, steady, strengthen), tyèka (lath, rail, stake), roubík (gag, pin, setting-stick), kùl (pale, pile, stake), hlídkovat na protest, demonstrant (demonstrator). (various references)

Danish

ploek (peg, sleeper plug, stud, treenail), pæl (pile, pole, stake), stolpe (column, fence post, fence stake, pillar, pole, post, stake, strut), stok (stake, walking stick), hegnsstolpe (fence post, fence stake, pole, post, stake), hegnspæl (fence post, fence stake, pigtail post, pole, post, stake), fikspunkt (measuring point, peg, reference point, stake), afsætningsstok (stake). (various references)

Dutch

piket (arrow for land chains, peg, peg for measuring chain, stake, stake for marking boundaries), paaltje (stake), paal (pole, post, rod, stake, stanchion), staak (stake), afrasteringspaal (fence post, fence stake, pigtail post, pole, post, stake). (various references)

Farsi 

میخچه (Corn, Spile), میخ چوبی (Peg, Spile, Stake), مراقبت کردن (Watch), چوب پرچین , چوب نوک تیز, نرده کشیدن (Fence, Rail), کشیک (Sentinel, Sentry, Vigilance, Watch), وجلوگیری ازورودسایرین بمحل کار, جلوکسی راه رفتن یاایستادن , افسارکردن دستک , اعتصاب کردن (Strike, Walkout), بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle). (various references)

Finnish

linjapaalu (stake). (various references)

French

piquet (piquet). (various references)

German

streikposten, Pfahl (caber, pale, palisade, pier, pile, pole, post, prop, stake, stilt, support). (various references)

Greek 

παλούκι (pale, peg, pile, pole, sod, stake, stick). (various references)

Hebrew 

משמרת שובתים, להפקיד משמרת שובתים, לגדר בכלונסאות, כלונס (pale, pole, spar, stake). (various references)

Hungarian

különítmény (commando, detachment, draft, task-force), cövek (pale, paling, peg, pin, spike, spud, stake, stock). (various references)

Indonesian

tiang pancang. (various references)

Italian

picchetto (peg, piquet, stake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ピギーバック輸送 (10^-12, pf, pickles, picnic, pico-, picofarad, picot, pictograph, picture, piggyback system, pique, Pisa, pixar, pixel, Pygmy), 杭 (stake). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ピケット , ピケ (pique), くい (meaning of phrase, regret, repentance, stake). (various references)

Korean 

말뚝 (stake, stakes). (various references)

Manx

piggad er chur er, piggad. (various references)

Pig Latin

icketpay

Portuguese

estaca (cutting, pale, pole, post, prop, rod, slip, spile, stake, stanchion). (various references)

Romanian

posta pichete de grevã, picheta (stake), pichet (picquet, pique, post, stake), pazã (guard, guardianship, keeping, safeguard, safety, security, sentinel, sentry, ward, watch), soldat de pazã, repartiza ca pichete, marca prin picheţi, lega de un par, fixa cu ţãruşi, face parte dintr-un pichet, cazic, aliniamentul siguranţei staţionãrii, înconjura cu un gard (fence), înconjura cu pichete de grevã, ţãruş (cleat, pale, peg, pin, spile, stake). (various references)

Russian 

кол (knee, pale, piquet, spile), выставлять пикет, обносить частоколом. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predstraža (advance guard, outpost), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), piket, ograditi kočićima, kolac (boomer, pale, pile, spile, stake), biti na mrtvoj straži. (various references)

Spanish

piquete (picket line), poste (bollard, newel, pole, post, pylon, stake, stanchion, stump, upright), estaca (cudgel, cutting, hint, pale, paling, peg, pile, pole, post, spur, stake, stick). (various references)

Swedish

strejkvakt, stake (benchmark, pole, rod, stake), piket. (various references)

Turkish

nöbetçi dikmek, nöbetçi (guard, guardsman, sentinel, sentry, warder, watchman), kazıklarla çevirmek, kazık (deceit, pale, peg, pile, post, ramp, stake), kazığa bağlamak (stake, tie on a pile), ileri karakol (outpost), grev gözcüsü, grev gözcülüğü yapmak, gözcü dikmek, gözcü (look out, lookout, observer, spotter, usher, watchman). (various references)

Ukranian 

сторожева застава, виставляти охорону, обгороджувати частоколом (impale), пікетувати, пікетник, пікет (piquet). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người ngồi biểu tình ban trực chiến phòng không đội thường trực cứu hoả. (various references)

Welsh

picedu. (various references)

custodia, custodiae, custodiam, custodiarum, custodias, custodiasque, custodiis, statio, statione, stationem, stationi, stationibus, stationis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "picket": picketboat, picketboats, picketed, picketer, picketers, picketing, pickets. (additional references)

Words ending with "picket": counterpicket. (additional references)

Words containing "picket": counterpicketed, counterpicketing, counterpickets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Picket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bicket, hicket, packea, packety, Paskett, Pckeg, pcnet, peccata, Peccati, Pecke, pecket, Peskett, pickel, pick'em, pickey, Picknett, Picktel, Pictet, piket, Pikit, pikke, Pilckem, pixet, Pockett, Prickett, Pykett. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cite, epic, etic, kepi, kept, kite, peck, pice, pick, pike, tick, tike.

-3 letters: cep, ice, ick, kep, kip, kit, pec, pet, pic, pie, pit, tic, tie, tip.

-4 letters: et, it, pe, pi, ti.

+1 letter: pickets, pricket, skeptic.

+2 letters: klephtic, peckiest, picketed, picketer, pickiest, pockiest, prickets, skeptics.

+3 letters: nitpicked, nitpicker, packeting, picketers, picketing, pluckiest, pocketing, prickiest, quickstep, skeptical, stockpile.

+4 letters: checkpoint, lipsticked, nitpickers, nitpickier, panickiest, pernickety, picketboat, pickpocket, pigsticked, pigsticker, politicked, politicker, prickliest, puckeriest, quicksteps, skepticism, stockpiled, stockpiler, stockpiles, superthick, taperstick.

+5 letters: checkpoints, computernik, kinetoscope, lickspittle, meatpacking, nitpickiest, optokinetic, peacockiest, persnickety, picketboats, pickpockets, pigstickers, pitchforked, pocketknife, politickers, skeptically, skepticisms, stockpilers, tapersticks.

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