Plural of picket

regular plural

The plural of picket is pickets.

Forms of picket

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.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 59
Once past the pickets, we had to remain hidden until Loiosh and I could identify the cook-tent.2010, Steven Brust, Dragon. From the entry cook-tent
"Antimutant" pickets have protested at MTV's Times Square studio and at a tribute to President Clinton.2000, U. S. News & World Report, Volume 129, Issues 1-8, page 150. From the entry buzzstorm
Bomb threats and pickets disrupted an all-night "teach-in" tonight at Michigan State University.1965 April 9, “Pickets and Bomb Threats Disrupt Michigan Teach-In”, in The New York Times, page 65. From the entry teach-in
Pickets came and went for the shortest shifts before resuming their work as teachers, taxidrivers or minders of other newspapers’ machinery.2016, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry taxidriver

noun A stake driven into the ground.
noun A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
noun A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

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