Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun picket

6 senses of picket

Sense 1
lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket -- (a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event)
       => watchman, watcher, security guard -- (a guard who keeps watch)

Sense 2
picket -- (a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack)
       => detachment -- (a small unit of troops of special composition)

Sense 3
picket -- (a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work)
       => demonstrator, protester -- (someone who participates in a public display of group feeling)

Sense 4
picket -- (a vehicle performing sentinel duty)
       => military vehicle -- (vehicle used by the armed forces)

Sense 5
picket, pale -- (a wooden strip forming part of a fence)
       => strip -- (thin piece of wood or metal)

Sense 6
picket, piquet -- (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)
       => torture, torturing -- (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb picket

2 senses of picket

Sense 1
picket -- (serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs")
       => demonstrate, march -- (march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle")

Sense 2
picket -- (fasten with a picket; "picket the goat")
       => fasten, fix, secure -- (cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man")