picket

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A game at cards
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
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 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
serve as pickets or post pickets
fasten with a picket
A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles
A pointed pale, used in marking fences
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy
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
A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake
To fortify with pointed stakes
To inclose or fence with pickets or pales
To tether to, or as to, a picket
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket
To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

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