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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.]

Picket \Pick"et\, n. [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. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.]
      (Mil.) 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]

资料来源 : WordNet®

picket
     n 1: a person employed to watch for something to happen [syn: {lookout},
           {lookout man}, {sentinel}, {sentry}, {watch}, {spotter},
           {scout}]
     2: a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
     3: a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place
        of work
     4: a vehicle performing sentinel duty
     5: a wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: {pale}]

picket
     v 1: serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to
          protest the lay-offs"
     2: fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"