Picket

noun

'pɪkɪt

Noun

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Similar:LookoutScout Sentinel Sentry Spotter
Type of:WatcherWatchman
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
Similar:Piquet
Type of:TorturingTorture
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Similar:Pale
Type of:Strip
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
Type of:Detachment
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
Type of:ProtesterDemonstrator
a vehicle performing sentinel duty

fasten with a picket
“picket the goat”
Type of:FastenSecureFix
serve as pickets or post pickets
“picket a business to protest the layoffs”
Type of:MarchDemonstrate