1. (

• lookout ,
• lookout_man ,
• sentinel ,
• sentry ,
• watch ,
• spotter ,
• scout ,
• picket ,

) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event ;

2. (

• picket

) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack ;

3. (

• picket

) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work ;

4. (

• picket ,

) a vehicle performing sentinel duty ;

5. (

• picket ,
• pale

) a wooden strip forming part of a fence ;

6. (

• picket ,
• piquet ,

) 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 ;

1. (

• picket

) serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs" ;

2. (

• picket

) fasten with a picket; "picket the goat" ;