Picket

Noun

 * 1) A stake driven into the ground.
 * A picket fence.
 * 1)  A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
 * 2) A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
 * 3)  Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.  It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
 * Pickets warned of enemy troops approaching from the west.
 * 1) 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.

Verb

 * 1) to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.

Derived terms

 * picket line
 * picketing
 * unpicketed

Thesaurus
Argus, Charley, advance guard, airplane spotter, anchor, armed guard, bank guard, bar, beef, bind, bitch, blockade, boggle, box in, boycott, bridle, bulkhead in, call in question, chain, challenge, coast guard, complain, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cry out against, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstrator, demur, dismember, dispute, draw and quarter, enchain, enclose, enter a protest, entrammel, expostulate, fasten, fence, fence in, fetter, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, flying squadron, forward observer, garrison, go on strike, go out, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, goon, goon squad, grill, guard, guarder, guardsman, gyve, hamper, handcuff, hedge, hem, hem in, hobble, hog-tie, hold out, holler, hopple, howl, impale, inlying picket, jailer, keelhaul, kick, lash, leash, leg, lock out, lookout, lookout man, make fast, manacle, march, moor, night watchman, object, observer, outguard, outpost, pale, paling, palisade, patrol, patroller, patrolman, peg, peg down, picket line, picketer, picquet, pile, pin down, pinion, post, press objections, protest, protester, put in irons, rack, rail, raise a howl, rally, rear guard, remonstrate, restrain, revolt, rope, roundsman, scout, scruple, secure, security guard, sentinel, sentry, shackle, shank, shut in, shut it down, sit down, sit in, slow down, spile, spotter, squawk, stake, stanchion, state a grievance, straitjacket, strap, strike, striker, strong-arm man, tar and feather, teach in, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, torture, train guard, trammel, upright, van, vanguard, vedette, vertical, walk out, wall, wall in, ward, warder, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman, yell bloody murder

Etymology
From piquet:, from piquer:.

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Romanian: pichet


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: ピケット (piketto)


 * Spanish:


 * Estonian: pikett


 * Finnish: etuvartio