·vt To fortify with pointed stakes.
II. Picket ·noun A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
III. Picket ·vt To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
IV. Picket ·noun A game at cards.
·see Piquet.
V. Picket ·vt To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
VI. Picket ·vt To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
VII. Picket ·vt To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
VIII. Picket ·noun A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
IX. Picket ·noun A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
X. Picket ·noun A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy;
- called also outlying picket.
XI. Picket ·noun 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.