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Words with a similar base: picket

'picket'

[lookout.n.01] as in: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

'picket'

[picket.n.02] as in: a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

'picket'

[picket.n.03] as in: a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

'picket'

[picket.n.04] as in: a vehicle performing sentinel duty

'picket'

[picket.n.05] as in: a wooden strip forming part of a fence

'picket'

[picket.n.06] as in: 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

'picket'

[picket.v.01] as in: serve as pickets or post pickets

Examples:
picket a business to protest the layoffs

'picket'

[picket.v.02] as in: fasten with a picket

Examples:
picket the goat

Origins

					picket (English)
└── piquet (French)