Словарь синонимов английского языка - picket

(n) 1. stake, pale, post, peg, stanchion, upright, vertical, palisade, paling: The walls of the ford were of strong pickets tapered to a point at the top. 2. demonstrator, protester, striker: The police prevented the pickets from attacking workers who entered the factory. 3. picquet, sentinel, watchman, guard, observer, patrol, vedette or vidette or vedette boat: The picket reported no unusual activity. -(v) 4. enclose, shut in, wall in, fence (in), hem in, box in: We picketed the camp for the night. 5. protest, demonstrate, blockade: Strikers picketed the factory 24. hours a day.