Picket vs Wicket - What's the difference?
picket | wicket |
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:
A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
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, chapter=26, title= A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
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, title= (card games) The card game piquet.
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 guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
(British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (ticket barrier) at a rail station.
(cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
(cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
(cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
(cricket) The pitch.
(cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
(croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
(skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
(US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
(mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
(Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
As nouns the difference between picket and wicket
is that picket is a stake driven into the ground while wicket is a small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.As a verb picket
is to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.picket
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
The Dust of Conflict, passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket , and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}
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.}}
Verb
(en verb)- to picket a horse
Derived terms
* picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----wicket
English
Noun
(en noun)- As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket .
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