English to English noun
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a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | | source: wordnet30
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a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack | | source: wordnet30
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a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work | | source: wordnet30
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a vehicle performing sentinel duty | | source: wordnet30
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a wooden strip forming part of a fence | | source: wordnet30
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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 | | source: wordnet30
7 |
A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. | | source: webster1913 verb
8 |
serve as pickets or post pickets | | Example: picket a business to protest the layoffs
source: wordnet30
9 |
fasten with a picket | | Example: picket the goat
source: wordnet30
10 |
To fortify with pointed stakes. | | source: webster1913
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