pickets
Protest line walkers
Pickets are pointed stakes driven into the ground, typically as part of a fence or to secure something in place.
The word extends to people stationed outside a workplace during a strike, standing like human stakes to discourage others from entering: Union members walked the picket line for three weeks.
As a verb, to picket means to stand guard in this way, or to enclose an area with pointed stakes.
A picket fence, with its evenly spaced vertical slats, evokes images of tidy suburban domesticity.
Forceful impact or stoppage
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- rallyGathering for a cause
- unionJoining into one
- placardsSigns carried at demonstrations
chanting · solidarity · boycott · grievances · march · labor · dissent · demonstrators
strike
Forceful impact or stoppage
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- rallyGathering for a cause
- unionJoining into one
placards · chanting · solidarity · boycott · grievances · march · labor · dissent · demonstrators · banner
stake
Sharpened post or share
rail · pointed · wooden · spaced · whitewash · gate · yard · boundary · upright · vertical
sentry
Guard on duty
scout · watch · lookout · sentinel · perimeter · surveillance · advance · detachment · cavalry · stationed
- labor strikeswalkouts, walkout, strike action, coal strike, labor strike
- cavalrycavalry, cavalryman, cavalry brigade, cavalry charges, cavalry officer
- fencing suppliesfence posts, fence panels, fence boards, chain link, posts
- guard dutysentry, sentry duty, guard post, guard tower, watchtowers
- iron fencingwrought iron, cast iron, posts, rails, gates
- iron gate partshinges, latches, locks, rails, posts
picketsscabs
Dried wound coverings
strikebreakers · blacklegs · crossers · finks · management
- picket fenceSlatted wooden yard barrier
- white picket fenceTraditional property divider
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- picket signHandheld demonstration board
- picketing workersEmployees protesting at worksite
- picket dutyGuard or protest post
picket, picketing, picketed, picketer, picketers, picket line, picket fence