picket

picket
noun
  1. a person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue, protesting about something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike
    （工会罢工等时派出宣传罢工目的并阻止不愿罢工工人上班的）示威者，抗议者；纠察员；纠察队
    ■a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by such a person or group
    纠察员（队）设置的障碍
  2. (亦作 picquet)a small body of troops or a single soldier sent out to watch for the enemy
    警戒队；警戒哨
    ■a soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty
    特勤兵；特勤队
    a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin.
    一队特勤兵朝棺材上方排枪射击。
  3. [usu. as modifier]a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or palisade or to tether a horse
    （作篱笆或拴马用的）尖木桩，尖板条
(picketed, picketing)
  1. [with obj.]act as a picket outside (a place of work or other venue)
    设置纠察
    strikers picketed the newspaper's main building.
    罢工者在报社主楼外设置了纠察。
派生
picketer
noun
语源
  1. late 17th cent. (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet 'pointed stake', from piquer 'to prick', from pic 'pike'
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