Picket

What “Picket” means

Noun

1. A stake driven into the ground.
2. A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
5. A sentry.

Verb

1. To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Where the word comes from

From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).

Business name ideas with “Picket”

Industries where “Picket” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Fencing Company
• All Other Specialty Trade Contractors