Dictionary definition · picket
noun
- 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
verb
- serve as pickets or post pickets"picket a business to protest the layoffs"
- fasten with a picket"picket the goat"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).