picket

What is the Definition of picket?

Noun:

1. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
2. a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
3. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
4. a vehicle performing sentinel duty
5. a wooden strip forming part of a fence
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

Verb:

1. serve as pickets or post pickets
2. fasten with a picket

Other meanings of picket (synonyms, cognates).