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   Pick·et

   /ˈpikət/

   

   noun

   • 1. a person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue, protesting something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike: "forty pickets were arrested" Similar strikerdemonstratorprotesterobjectorpicketerstrike picketflying picket
   • ▪ a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a group of people in protest of something: "the workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at the factory gates" Similar demonstrationpicket lineblockadeboycottpicketingsecondary picketing
   • 2. a soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty: "a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin"
   • 3. a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or palisade or to tether a horse: "a cedar-picket stockade" Similar stakepegpostpalinguprightstanchionpierpilingpalisade

   verb

   • 1. act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue): "strikers picketed the newspaper's main building"

   Word Origin 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’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. picketer noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • P

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   • I

     1

   • C

     3

   • K

     5

   • E

     1

   • T

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