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Word: Picket
Speech Type: Noun
late 17th century (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet ‘pointed stake’, from piquer ‘to prick’, from pic ‘pike’
ˈpɪkɪt
a person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike
Short Definition:group standing outside place as protest
Examples:- forty pickets were arrested
a soldier or small group of soldiers performing a particular duty, especially one sent out to watch for the enemy
Short Definition:soldier or group of soldiers
Examples:- when would this headlong advance run into the enemy pickets?
- a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin
a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse
Short Definition:pointed wooden stake
Examples:- a cedar-picket stockade
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