English-Finnish translations for picket

Definition of picket

  • A stake driven into the ground
  • A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake
  • One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit performing a similar function
  • A sentry
  • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike ; also the protest itself
  • The card game piquet
  • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment
  • To tether to, or as if to, a picket
  • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket

Examples

  • a picket fence
  • Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent
  • to picket a horse

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