Words that Rhyme with picket
2 Syllable Words
bickett, cricket, fickett, pickett, prickett, rickett, thicket, ticket, trickett, wicket, wickett
Definitions of picket
n. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
n. A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
n. A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
n. 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.
n. A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
n. A game at cards. See Piquet.
v. t. To fortify with pointed stakes.
v. t. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
v. t. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
v. t. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
v. t. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.