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picket


picket - noun

  • a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  • a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
  • a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
  • a vehicle performing sentinel duty
  • a wooden strip forming part of a fence
  • a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake

    • picket - verb

    • serve as pickets or post pickets
    • fasten with a picket

    picket - thesaurus

    lookout   pale   piquet   scout   sentinel   sentry   spotter   watch  

    Scrabble score for picket

    p is 3 i is 1 c is 3 k is 5 e is 1 t is 1
    Scrabble score = 14

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