Usually means: Barrier consisting of vertical stakes.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word picket fence:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. picket fence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. picket fence: Merriam-Webster
  3. picket fence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. picket fence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. picket fence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. picket fence: Vocabulary.com
  7. picket-fence, picket fence: Wordnik
  8. picket fence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. picket fence: Wiktionary
  10. picket fence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. picket fence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Picket fence, picket fence: Dictionary.com
  13. Picket fence (disambiguation), Picket fence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. picket fence: Rhymezone
  15. picket fence: FreeDictionary.org
  16. picket fence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. picket-fence, picket fence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Picket Fence: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See picket_fences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (picket fence)

noun:  A simple fence made from wooden pickets, connected by horizontal bars.
noun:  A series of spaced perpendicular striations that occasionally occur in aurorae.

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