picket
21picket — n. & v. n. 1 a person or group of people outside a place of work, intending to persuade esp. workers not to enter during a strike etc. 2 a pointed stake or peg driven into the ground to form a fence or palisade, to tether a horse, etc. 3 (also… …
22picket — Piquet Pi*quet , n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and… …
23picket — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …
24picket — pick|et1 [ pıkıt ] noun count 1. ) a stick put into the ground and used for marking something or for tying an animal to 2. ) a group of people who are protesting about something outside a building, especially a group of workers who are on STRIKE… …
25picket — 1. noun 1) forty pickets were arrested Syn: striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer 2) fences made of cedar pickets Syn: stake, post, paling; upright, stanchion, piling …
26picket — n 1. stake, pale, paling, post; upright, stanchion, pile; peg, tether. 2. picketer, demonstrator, protestor, protestant, re sister, objector, rebel, agitator, dissenter, dissident, marcher, Inf. sit in. 3. forward observer, lookout, spotter,… …
27picket — 1. noun 1) forty pickets were arrested Syn: demonstrator, striker, protester 2) they decided to organize a picket Syn: demonstration, picket line, blockade, boycott, strike 2. verb …
28picket — [ˈpɪkɪt] noun [C] I ˈpicket ˌline a group of people who are protesting outside a building, especially a group of workers who are on STRIKE II verb [I/T] picket [ˈpɪkɪt] to take part in a protest outside a building About 100 people picketed the US …
29picket (to) — Demonstrate. Union workers form PICKET LINES, and protesters against government policies picket the White House …
30picket — 1. noun a) A stake driven into the ground. A picket fence. b) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. Pickets warned of enemy troops approaching from the west. 2 …
