pickets
Meaning of pickets
noun
- A stake driven into the ground.
a picket fence
- A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- 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.
- The card game piquet.
- To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
to picket a horse
- To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Information about pickets
- The singular form of pickets is: picket.
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Hyphenation of pickets
pick-ets
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- pickets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of pickets
Words that rhyme with pickets
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