picket

1. (countable, uncountable)A stake driven into the ground.

   a picket fence

   Pfosten, Pfahl, Zaunlatte

   колkol, штаке́тинаštakétina

2. (countable, historical, uncountable)A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

3. (countable, uncountable)A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

4. (countable, uncountable)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.

   Vorposten

   аванпо́стavanpóst, кордо́нkordón, дозо́рdozór

5. (countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable)A sentry.

6. (countable, uncountable)A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

   Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

   Streikposten

   пике́тчикpikétčik, пике́тчицаpikétčica

7. (uncountable)The card game piquet.

1. Tom didn't want to cross the picket line.

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2. I didn't want to cross the picket line.

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3. I don't want to cross the picket line.

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4. I doubt Tom has the courage to cross the picket line.

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5. I doubt that Tom has the courage to cross the picket line.

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