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1. A protester or group of protestors posted outside a place of work, esp. during a strike to encourage others not to go to work
    
2. A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
   - lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout
    
3. A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
    
4. (military) a vehicle performing sentinel duty
    
5. A wooden strip forming part of a fence
   - pale
    
6. 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
   - piquet

1. Serve as pickets or post pickets
   "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
    
2. Fasten with a picket
   "picket the goat"

Derived forms: pickets, picketing, picketed

Type of: demonstrate, demonstrator, detachment, fasten, fix, march, military vehicle, protester, protestor, secure, security guard, strip, torture, torturing, watcher, watchman

Part of: paling, picket fence

Encyclopedia: Picket