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
   "The pickets formed a line outside the factory gates, holding signs and chanting slogans"
    
2. A wooden strip forming part of a fence
   "He repainted the weathered pales of the picket fence";
   - pale
    
3. A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
   "The picket alerted the camp to approaching enemies"
    
4. (military) a vehicle performing sentinel duty
   "The picket patrolled the perimeter of the base"
    
5. 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
   "The soldier endured the picket punishment for hours";
   - 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: picketing, picketed, pickets

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

Part of: paling, picket fence

Encyclopedia: Picket