Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on.
A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
Syndicated material.
The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
Formulaic or hackneyed language.
A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature.
Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
The card game piquet.
A stake driven into the ground.
A sentry.
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.
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.