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picket:
(also ‘picketer‘; plural: ‘pickets‘)
Apart from several other meanings/definitions …
a line of pickets/a picket line
a person/worker or a group of people/workers that stand outside a workplace and express their anger by not going in to work or not allowing anybody else to go in to work, until a dispute or disagreement with the employer or boss is settled — on a strike; (when a group is picketing, it is usually called a ‘picket line’)
a protester;
a soldier or a troop of soldiers on duty guarding a place from the enemy, usually an entrance to some place; (also, less commonly, called a ‘piquet’)
a picket/piquet, soldiers guarding a sensitive place
e.g.
In a democratic country, workers/pickets have a right to picket peacefully.
The police fired tear gas when a picket/picketer threw a petrol bomb at them.
The pickets warned the main camp that the enemy soldiers were trying to approach from the river side.
(a picket or picket fence)
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