Picket

·vt To fortify with pointed stakes.

II. Picket ·noun A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

III. Picket ·vt To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

IV. Picket ·noun A game at cards. ·see Piquet.

V. Picket ·vt To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

VI. Picket ·vt To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

VII. Picket ·vt To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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

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

X. Picket ·noun A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy;

— called also outlying picket.

XI. Picket ·noun 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.