picket

Meanings

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
• a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
• a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
• a vehicle performing sentinel duty
• a wooden strip forming part of a fence
• 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
• serve as pickets or post pickets
  • "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
• fasten with a picket
  • "picket the goat"

Synonyms

lookout, lookout man, pale, piquet, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch