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Uncommonpicket
The correct spelling is picket.
How to pronounce picket
/ˈpɪkɪt/
nounIPA: /ˈpɪkɪt/
Say it like: Pik-et
The correct spelling is picket. A stake driven into the ground. For example: "a picket fence"
Usage Examples
“a picket fence”
“Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.”
“to picket a horse”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A stake driven into the ground.
- 2.A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- 3.A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- 4.One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- 5.(sometimes figurative) A sentry.
verb
- 1.To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- 2.To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- 3.To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- 4.To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- 5.To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
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