pick·et /ˈpɪkət/
樁,尖樁,前哨(vt.)圍住,警戒(vi.)擔任糾察
Pi·quet n. 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 picquet.]
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Pick·et n.
1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
3. Mil. A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant]
5. A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
6. A game at cards. See Piquet.
Inlying picket Mil., a detachment of troops held in camp or quarters, detailed to march if called upon.
Picket fence, a fence made of pickets. See def. 2, above.
Picket guard Mil., a guard of horse and foot, always in readiness in case of alarm.
Picket line. Mil. (a) A position held and guarded by small bodies of men placed at intervals. (b) A rope to which horses are secured when groomed.
Picketpin, an iron pin for picketing horses.
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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picket
n 1: a person employed to watch for something to happen [syn: lookout,
lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter,
scout]
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: pale]
v 1: serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to
protest the lay-offs"
2: fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"