Usually means: Strips of wood for fencing.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pickets: Merriam-Webster
  2. pickets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pickets: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pickets: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pickets, pickets: Wordnik
  6. pickets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pickets: Wiktionary
  8. pickets: Dictionary.com
  9. pickets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. pickets: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pickets: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pickets: Legal dictionary

(Note: See picket as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (picket)

noun:  A stake driven into the ground.
noun:  (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
noun:  A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
noun:  (military) 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.
noun:  (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
noun:  A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
noun:  (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
verb:  (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
verb:  (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
verb:  (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
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