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noun
1.
a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
2.
a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike.
3.
a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies or actions, before an embassy, office building, construction project, etc.
4.
Military. a soldier or detachment of soldiers placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.
5.
Navy, Air Force. an aircraft or ship performing similar sentinel duty.
verb (used with object)
6.
to enclose within a picket fence or stockade, as for protection, imprisonment, etc.: to picket a lawn; to picket captives.
7.
to fasten or tether to a picket.
8.
to place pickets in front of or around (a factory, store, mine, embassy, etc.), as during a strike or demonstration.
9.
Military.
a.
to guard, as with pickets.
b.
to post as a picket.
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Picketed
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
10.
to stand or march as a picket.
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Word Origin & History
picket
1690, "pointed stake (for defense against cavalry, etc.)," from Fr. piquet, from piquer "to pierce" (see pike (2)). Sense of "troops posted to watch for enemy" first recorded 1761; that of "striking workers stationed to prevent others from entering a factory" is from 1867.
EXPAND The verb in this sense also is from 1867.
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