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Picket Meaning In Urdu

Picket Meaning in English to Urdu is کیل, as written in Urdu and Keel, as written in Roman Urdu. There are many synonyms of Picket which include Pale, Paling, Palisade, Panel, Peg, Pillar, Rail, Stake, Stanchion, Upright, etc.

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.

transitive v. To fortify with pointed stakes.

transitive v. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

transitive v. To tether to, or as to, a picket.

transitive v. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

transitive v. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Form Noun

How To Spell Picket [pik-it]

Origin of Picket Late 17th century (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet ‘pointed stake’, from piquer ‘to prick’, from pic ‘pike’.

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