picket

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A stake driven into the ground.
 * 2)  A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
 * 3) A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
 * 4)  One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
 * 5)  A sentry.
 * 6) A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
 * 7)  The card game piquet.
 * 1) A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
 * 2)  The card game piquet.
 * 1)  The card game piquet.
 * 1)  The card game piquet.
 * 1)  The card game piquet.

Translations

 * Arabic:, شَاخِص, لِكَاز
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: paliso
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , Zaunlatte,
 * Icelandic: staur, rimill, pílári
 * Irish: staic
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Macedonian: кол, ко́лец
 * Maori: wāwā
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: paaluun paneminen


 * Bulgarian: пикел
 * Finnish: lumikiila


 * Bulgarian: дозор
 * Estonian: pikett
 * Finnish: etuvartio
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Icelandic: hervörður
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: ко́рдон
 * Russian:, , , ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 糾察隊
 * Finnish:
 * German: Streikposten
 * Icelandic: verkfallsvörður
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ピケット
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
 * 2)  To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
 * 3)  To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
 * to picket a horse
 * 1)  To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
 * 2)  To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.