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picket

noun

1 picket

A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.

synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch.

Roget 752: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, ... show more

Roget 972: punishment, punition; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation.    discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty etc. 974; retribution; ... show more

Roget 668: warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice etc. (information) 527; premonition, premonishment; prediction etc. 511; contraindication, ... show more

Dutch: wacht, schildwacht, uitkijk, verkenner
Polish: wartownik

2 picket

A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack.

Dutch: piket
Polish: pikieta

3 picket

A protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work.

Dutch: piket
Polish: protestujÄ…cy, pikieciarz

4 picket

A vehicle performing sentinel duty.

5 picket

A wooden strip forming part of a fence.

synonym: pale.

Polish: pal

6 picket

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.

synonym: piquet.

Roget 726: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, ... show more

Roget 717: defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding etc. v.; propugnation, preservation etc. 670; guardianship.    area defense; ... show more

verb

1 picket

Serve as pickets or post pickets.

Roget 751: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar etc. ... show more

Roget 229: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround etc. 227; compass about; imprison etc. (restrain) 751; hedge in, ... show more

Roget 184: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; ... show more

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, ... show more

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; ... show more

2 picket

Fasten with a picket.


Moby thesaurus: Argus, Charley, advance guard, airplane spotter, anchor, armed guard, bank guard, bar, beef, bind, bitch, blockade, boggle, box in, boycott, bridle, bulkhead in, call in question, chain, challenge ... show more.

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picketing

noun

Roget 972: punishment, punition; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation.    discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty etc. 974; retribution; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: beef, bitch, boycott, challenge, complaint, compunction, confinement, demonstration, demur, demurrer, dismemberment, estrapade, exception, expostulation, galleys, grievance, grievance committee, hard labor, howl, impalement ... show more.

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