picket
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picket¹
- /ˈpɪkɪt/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪkɪt
Where it comes from
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
noun pickets
- A stake driven into the ground. 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. So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
- A sentry. Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself. Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
- The card game piquet.
verb pickets · picketing · picketting · picketed · picketted
- To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. One of the most striking was the silver pin presented to all members of the National Women’s Party who served time for picketting the White House for women’s suffrage.
- To tether to, or as if to, a picket. to picket a horse
- To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Picket²
proper noun Pickets
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sentry, sentinel, lookout man, watch, scout, lookout, pale, stake, pitting, demonstration, manifestation, expression, post, stanchion, peg, pole
Translations
Every language
noun stake driven into the ground
| 日本語 | 杭 kui |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 樴 /枳 zhí |
| Français | piquet |
| Deutsch | Pfosten, Pfahl, Zaunlatte, Latte |
| Italiano | paletto, piolo, picchetto |
| Română | pichet |
| Русский | кол kol, штаке́тина štakétina |
| العربية | وَتَد watad, شَاخِص šāḵiṣ, لِكَاز likāz |
noun soldiers placed forward of position
| Français | planton, piquet |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Vorposten |
| Italiano | picchetto |
| Русский | аванпо́ст avanpóst, кордо́н kordón, дозо́р dozór, форпо́ст forpóst, пике́т pikét |
noun protester outside a workplace during a strike
| 日本語 | ピケット piketto |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 糾察隊 /纠察队 jiūcháduì |
| Français | piquet |
| Deutsch | Streikposten |
| Italiano | picchetto |
| Русский | пике́тчик pikétčik, пике́тчица pikétčica |
verb to protest
| Español | piquetear |
|---|
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