Picket is valid Scrabble Word

Is picket a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is picket valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for PICKET in dictionary:

VERB:

to act as a picket, also PICQUET, PIQUET
act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue)
To fortify with pointed stakes.
To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
serve as pickets or post pickets
fasten with a picket
form a picket outside (a workplace)

NOUN:

a person or group stationed to watch and dissuade those who go to work during a strike
a person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike
a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket
a soldier or small group of soldiers performing a particular duty, especially one sent out to watch for the enemy
a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse
person or group standing outside a workplace during a strike
A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
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.
A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
A game at cards. See Piquet.
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
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

Words related to PICKET

picketed17 picketer16 picketers17 picketing18 pickets15

Words that contain PICKET

pickets15 picketed17 picketer16 picketers17 picketing18 picketboat20 picketings19 picketboats21 counterpicket23 counterpickets24 counterpicketed26 counterpicketin25 counterpicketing27

How to use PICKET in a sentence

Here and there I could see a picket pacing back and forth, or an officer making his rounds.
The regiment therefore fell into a regular groove of guard and picket duty.
From our position on picket we could see a short distance in front, the ground having been partially cleared of trees and undergrowth.
On picket he had wandered to the edge of the ravine and fallen over.
A picket is a group consisting of two or more squads, ordinarily not exceeding half a company, posted in the line of outposts to cover a given sector.
I went downstairs to get coffee for the picket, but when I got out to the gate there was no picket there.
The morning glories all in fresh bloom climbed cheerfully over the picket fence.
The picket upon duty is a prey to many an imaginary danger.
A picket was surprised and a gun captured, but they were unable to say whether any of them had been wounded in the skirmish.
Probably not a guard or picket was placed about the camp.

This animal seldom fails to frighten the remainder, when away they all go with long ropes and picket pins dangling after them.
Here we remained until the morning of the 27th, part of the regiment being out on picket duty.
The soldiers on both sides joke with one another across the picket lines.
He lay for an hour in the woods near the Southern picket line watching his chance.
I counsel that a picket be sent forward to report if the way be clear.
She circled the picket, awakening Collie, who spoke to her sleepily.
The carriage drew up at the barrier, checked there by a picket of the National Guard posted before the iron gates.
The picket consisted of a squad of cavalry under Lieutenant Russell.
I did my duty mechanically, serving on camp guard and on picket regularly, but feeling interest in nothing beyond my own inner self.
That afternoon and night we were on picket, having been thrown forward a mile from the bivouac of the division.
Captain Blaikie stands leaning against a traverse in the fire-trench, superintending the return of a party from picket duty.
He always kept a horse on picket for the night, and often took the herd as it left the bed ground at clear dawn.
In order to avoid listening to the gloomy tales that were being narrated around the camp-fire, a number of us got up and went out as if to look up the night horses on picket.
With the approach of dawn, the sentry challenged an advancing troop, which proved to be the relief picket guard.
Early on the morning of January 6, the sentry of the picket posted on the nek between Wagon Hill and Wagon Point, became aware of movement on the slope and gave the alarm.
Thinking this was a soldier on picket duty, he recollected the word of the night, and reined in to give it upon demand.

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