Picket
nounid
104296·updated May 16, 2026“Picket” is retired. It does not tag in any document, it is excluded from the anchor pack, and it does not hold its lemma — so another term can take it.
deprecated
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
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
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This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet, so it tags only its canonical form.
Framework definitions
- §1
- 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
- §2
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- §3
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- §4
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- §5
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- §6
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
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