picket

/pˈɪkɪt/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

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
   “picket a business to protest the layoffs”
2. fasten with a picket
   “picket the goat”

Synonyms for picket

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

Words that rhyme with picket

• thicket
• tourniquet
• bickett
• fickett
• prickett
• rickett
• trickett
• wickett