Brazilian Portugese Meaning of picket

Piquete

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Definitions and Meaning of picket in English

Wordnet

picket (n)

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

a vehicle performing sentinel duty

a wooden strip forming part of a fence

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

Wordnet

picket (v)

serve as pickets or post pickets

fasten with a picket

Webster

picket (n.)

A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.

A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

A game at cards. See Piquet.

Webster

picket (v. t.)

To fortify with pointed stakes.

To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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