Definitions For Picket

noun

  • 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
  • A wooden strip forming part of a fence
  • A vehicle performing sentinel duty
  • A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
  • A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  • A protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
  • A stick or post that is pointed at the end so that it can be put into the ground
  • A person or group of people who are standing or marching near a place to protest something
  • A protest or strike involving pickets

verb

  • Fasten with a picket
  • Serve as pickets or post pickets
  • To stand or march in a public place in order to protest something or to prevent other workers from going to work during a strike
  • To guard (something, such as a road or camp) with a group of soldiers

Is Picket a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
16

The word Picket is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Picket in a Sentence

  • A house surrounded by a white picket fence
  • Pickets marched in front of the company headquarters.
  • The strikers held picket signs painted with angry slogans.
  • Workers picketed outside the grocery store.
  • The union is picketing the factory.

Synonyms for Picket

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