What does Picket mean?
Definitions for Picket
ˈpɪk ɪtpick·et
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Picket.
Princeton's WordNet
lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picketnoun
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
picketnoun
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
picketnoun
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
picketnoun
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
picket, palenoun
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
picket, piquetverb
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
picketverb
serve as pickets or post pickets
"picket a business to protest the layoffs"
picketverb
fasten with a picket
"picket the goat"
Wiktionary
picketnoun
A stake driven into the ground.
A picket fence.
picketnoun
A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
picketnoun
A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
picketnoun
Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
picketnoun
A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
picketnoun
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.
picketverb
to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.
Etymology: From piquet, from piquer.
ChatGPT
picket
A picket refers to a person, group of people or an object that serve as a form of protest, demonstration or barrier. In a protest context, it refers to individuals demonstrating against an organization by marching, chanting or holding up signs outside its premises. In a barrier context, it refers to a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale usually nailed or driven into the ground used for fencing or fortification.
Webster Dictionary
Picketnoun
a stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses
Picketnoun
a pointed pale, used in marking fences
Picketnoun
a detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket
Picketnoun
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
Picketnoun
a military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake
Picketnoun
a game at cards. See Piquet
Picketverb
to fortify with pointed stakes
Picketverb
to inclose or fence with pickets or pales
Picketverb
to tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse
Picketverb
to guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket
Picketverb
to torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake
Etymology: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet.]
Wikidata
Picket
In military terminology, a picket refers to soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit performing a similar function. The term is from the British, dating from before 1735 and probably much earlier. In modern military terms it refers to a soldier or small group of soldiers maintaining a watch. This may mean a watch for the enemy, or other types of watch i.e. "fire picket". A staggered picket consists of, for example, two soldiers where one soldier is relieved at a time. This is so that on any given picket one soldier is fresh, having just started the picket, while the other is ready to be relieved. Although each soldier is required to maintain watch for the full duration of a shift, halfway through each shift a new soldier is put on watch. Staggered pickets are consequently more difficult to plan than standard pickets.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Picket
pik′et, n. a pointed stake used in fortification: a small outpost or guard stationed in front of an army: a number of men sent out by a trades-union to prevent others from working against the wishes or decisions of the union: a game at cards: a punishment inflicted by making a person stand on one foot on a pointed stake.—v.i. to fasten to a stake, as a horse: to post a vanguard: to place a picket at or near.—ns. Pick′et-fence, a fence of pickets or pales; Pick′et-guard, a guard kept in readiness in case of alarm. [Fr. piquet, dim. of pic, a pickaxe.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
picket
A pointed staff or stake driven into the ground for various military purposes, as the marking out plans of works, the securing horses to, &c. (See also PIQUET, an outguard.)
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
picket
A detachment composed of cavalry or infantry, whose principal duty is to guard an army from surprise and oppose such small parties as the enemy may push forward for the purpose of reconnoitring.
picket
A sharp stake used for securing the fascines of a battery, or fastening the tent-ropes of a camp, etc.
picket
To fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. Also, to fasten to a picket, as a horse while grazing.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
PICKET
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Picket is ranked #73464 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Picket surname appeared 264 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Picket.
55.3% or 146 total occurrences were White.
37.5% or 99 total occurrences were Black.
4.5% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Picket in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Picket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Picket in a Sentence
When I'm on picket lines around the country, people tell me they're protesting because they're working harder than ever and still can't make ends meet, the Progressive Caucus stands in solidarity with the working Americans putting in longer hours and seeing smaller paychecks. In the richest nation in the world, no business should be able to pay so little their workers are forced to find second and third jobs to feed their kids.
I never have and never will condone violence. People have the right to protest, that's what America is about, I've been on picket lines my whole life, but that is very difference from being involved in violence.
It was early the morning, and I was surprised about it, …I made a choice that I ha[d] to be with my students because I made the promise with them to be with them to practice that day. So I decided to cross the picket line.
If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
My white picket fence, my trellis, everything you'd identify my house with was gone, we're just waiting on a picture so that we can have our closure that way. I've known since Friday that our house was gone.
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- اعتصامArabic
- piqueteSpanish
- pikettEstonian
- paalu, etuvartio, mielenosoitusFinnish
- piquetFrench
- pílári, staur, verkfallsvörður, rimill, hervörðurIcelandic
- piolo, picchetto, palettoItalian
- משמרתHebrew
- ピケットJapanese
- wāwāMāori
- staurNorwegian
- pichetRomanian
- пикетчица, штаке́тина, пикет, аванпост, пикетчик, форпост, кордон, кол, дозорRussian
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