The meaning of PICKET is a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale. How to use picket in a sentence.

PICKET definition: a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc. See examples of picket used in a sentence.

A picket (archaically, picquet [variant form piquet]) is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an …

The firm's annual general meeting was picketed by union members angry at the decision to cut jobs. The group has decided not to picket until after the talks.

When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the workers to join …

Definition of picket noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. a person or group of people who stand outside the entrance to a building in order to protest about something, especially in order …

A detachment of one or more troops, ships, or aircraft held in readiness or advanced to warn of an enemy's approach: "The outlying sonar picket ... was to detect, localize, and engage any submarine …

Dec 14, 2025 · picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing or (rare) picketting, simple past and past participle picketed or (rare) picketted) (intransitive) To protest, …

There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun picket, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Picket definition: A pointed stake often driven into the ground to support a fence, secure a tent, tether animals, mark points in surveying, or, when pointed at the top, serve as a defense.