English-Thai Dictionary

picket

N ยาม  ทหารยาม  guard patrolman yam

 

picket

N เสา ปัก รั้ว  เสาเข็ม  pole pillar sao-pak-rua

 

picket

VT ล้อมรั้ว  ปัก ไม้ เป็น รั้ว  fence corral lom-rua

 

picket

VT เป็น ยาม  pen-yam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PICKET

n.A stake sharpened or pointed; used in fortification and encampments. 1. A narrow board pointed; used in making fence.
2. A guard posted in front of an army to give notice of the approach of the enemy.
3. A game at cards. [See Piquet. ]
4. A punishment with consists in making the offender stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

 

PICKET

v.t.To fortify with pointed stakes. 1. To inclose or fence with narrow pointed boards.
2. To fasten to a picket.

 

PICKETED

pp. Fortified or inclosed with pickets.

 

PICKETING

ppr. Inclosing or fortifying with pickets.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PICKET

Pick "et, n. Etym: [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet. ]

 

1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

 

2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

 

3. Etym: [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.] (Mil. )

 

Defn: A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

 

4. 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. [Cant ]

 

5. A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

 

6. A game at cards. See Piquet. Inlying picket (Mil. ), a detachment of troops held in camp or quarters, detailed to march if called upon. -- Picket fence, a fence made of pickets. See def. 2, above. -- Picket guard (Mil. ), a guard of horse and foot, always in readiness in case of alarm. -- Picket line. (Mil. ) (a ) A position held and guarded by small bodies of men placed at intervals. (b ) A rope to which horses are secured when groomed. -- Picketpin, an iron pin for picketing horses.

 

PICKET

Pick "et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Picketing. ]

 

1. To fortify with pointed stakes.

 

2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

 

3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

 

4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

 

5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs. ]

 

PICKETEE

PICKETEE Pick `e *tee ", n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: See Picotee.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

picket

pick et |ˈpikit ˈpɪkɪt | ▶noun 1 a person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue, protesting about something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike. • a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by such a person or group. 2 a soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty: a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin. 3 [ usu. as modifier ] a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or palisade or to tether a horse: a cedar-picket stockade. See also picket fence. ▶verb ( pickets, picketing , picketed ) [ with obj. ] act as a picket outside (a place of work or other venue ): strikers picketed the newspaper's main building | [ no obj. ] : 18,000 people turned up to picket. DERIVATIVES pick et er noun ORIGIN late 17th cent. (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment ): from French piquet ‘pointed stake, ’ from piquer ‘to prick, ’ from pic ‘pike. ’

 

picket fence

pick et fence ▶noun a wooden fence made of spaced uprights connected by two or more horizontal rails.

 

picket line

pick et line |ˈpɪkɪt ˌlaɪn | ▶noun a boundary established by workers on strike, esp. at the entrance to the place of work, that others are asked not to cross.

 

Pickett, George E.

Pick ett, George E. |ˈpikit ˈpɪkɪt | (1825 –75 ), US army officer; full name George Edward Pickett. Last in the West Point class of 1846, he was a distinguished Confederate general during the Civil War. In July 1863, at Gettysburg, under orders, he led a disastrous charge across an open field that became known as “Pickett's Charge. ”

 

Oxford Dictionary

picket

picket |ˈpɪkɪt | ▶noun 1 a person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike. • a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket. 2 (also picquet ) a soldier or small group of soldiers performing a particular duty, especially one sent out to watch for the enemy. 3 [ usu. as modifier ] a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse. ▶verb ( pickets, picketing, picketed ) [ with obj. ] act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue ): strikers picketed the newspaper's main building. DERIVATIVES picketer noun ORIGIN late 17th cent. (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment ): from French piquet ‘pointed stake ’, from piquer ‘to prick ’, from pic ‘pike ’.

 

picket fence

picket fence ▶noun a wooden fence made of spaced uprights connected by two or more horizontal rails. • N. Amer. a picket fence as a symbol of middle-class domesticity and contentment: we'd get a house with a white picket fence, and a dog, and have two kids.

 

picket line

picket line ▶noun a boundary established by workers on strike, especially at the entrance to the place of work, which others are asked not to cross.

 

Pickett, George E.

Pick ett, George E. |ˈpikit ˈpɪkɪt | (1825 –75 ), US army officer; full name George Edward Pickett. Last in the West Point class of 1846, he was a distinguished Confederate general during the Civil War. In July 1863, at Gettysburg, under orders, he led a disastrous charge across an open field that became known as “Pickett's Charge. ”

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

picket

picket noun 1 forty pickets were arrested: striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer. 2 fences made of cedar pickets: stake, post, paling; upright, stanchion, piling. ▶verb over 200 people picketed the factory: demonstrate at, protest at, strike at, form a picket at, man the picket line at; blockade, shut off.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

picket

picket noun 1 forty pickets were arrested: striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer; strike picket, flying picket. 2 they decided to organize a picket: demonstration, picket line, blockade, boycott; picketing, secondary picketing. 3 a glider can be secured by tying it down with pickets: stake, peg, post, paling; upright, stanchion, pier, piling, palisade. ▶verb over 200 people picketed the factory: demonstrate at, form a picket at, man the picket line at, launch a demonstration at, protest at, form a protest group at; blockade, isolate, surround, cordon off.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

picket

pick et /pɪ́kət /名詞 C 1 〖しばしば ～s 〗先のとがった杭 （くい ）, 棒杭 .2 〘軍 〙見張り兵, 分哨 （ぶんしよう ）; 〖単複両扱い; 集合的に 〗警戒部隊 ; 哨戒 （しようかい ）船 ; 哨戒機 .3 (労働争議中の )ピケ隊 (員 ), 監視隊 (員 ).4 デモ隊 (員 ).5 ＝picket line (1 ).動詞 他動詞 1 …に柵 （さく ）を巡らす .2 〈馬など 〉を杭につなぐ .3 …に見張り兵を置く .4 …にピケを張る, 監視員を配置する .自動詞 ピケ隊に立つ, ピケを張る .～̀ f é nce 杭柵, 杭垣 .～́ l ì ne 1 (労働争議などの )ピケライン, 監視線 .2 〘軍 〙前哨 （ぜんしよう ）戦 .～er 名詞