| Picket (picket) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Pick"et |
| [F. piquet,
properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf.
Piquet.] |
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.
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| Picket (picket) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Pick"et |
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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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