Picker vs Picket - What's the difference?

In military terms the difference between picker and picket

is that picker is a priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance while picket is soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

As nouns the difference between picker and picket

is that picker is agent noun of pick; one who picks while picket is a stake driven into the ground.

As a verb picket is

to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

picker

English

Noun

(en noun)

Agent noun of pick; one who picks.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker' s overalls.}}

(computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.

(engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.

(weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.

(military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.

(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.

Derived terms

* cherry picker

picket

English

Noun

(en noun)

A stake driven into the ground.

(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.

A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

(military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:

So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.

A sentry. Can be used figuratively.

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A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}

(card games) The card game piquet.

Verb

(en verb)

To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

to picket a horse

To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

(obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Derived terms

* picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----