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Meaning of picket

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  picket
      n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
           [syn: {lookout}, {lookout man}, {sentinel}, {sentry},
           {watch}, {spotter}, {scout}, {picket}]
      2: a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
      3: a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of
         work
      4: a vehicle performing sentinel duty
      5: a wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: {picket},
         {pale}]
      6: 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 [syn: {picket}, {piquet}]
      v 1: serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to
           protest the layoffs"
      2: fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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