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.
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 tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
A sentry.
To convey on poles.
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
To furnish with poles for support.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
To strike (the ball) very hard.
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
A gun.
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
A type of basic fishing rod.
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
Pole position.
For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
A penis.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.