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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pick·et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Picketing.]
 1. To fortify with pointed stakes.
 2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
 3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
 4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
 5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.]
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