picket

1. 1.

   serve as pickets or post pickets

   “picket a business to protest the layoffs”

   Broaderdemonstrate
2. 2.

   fasten with a picket

   “picket the goat”

   Broaderfasten

Other forms of picket

plural

pickets·

past tense

picketted·

present participle

picketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about picket

What does picket mean?

picket means "a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in picket?

picket has 2 syllables: pic-ket. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪkɪt/.

What is another word for picket?

Close synonyms include lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is picket a common word?

picket is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with picket?

1 word rhymes with picket. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.