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Picket (Verb)

Fasten with a picket; "picket the goat".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The livestock farmer had to picket the goat in the backyard, securing it with a rope to prevent it from escaping.
Before joining her family on the beach, she picketed her horse to a tree near the parking lot to prevent it from wandering off.
They carefully picketed the donkeys in designated areas near the riding trail so tourists could easily access them.
Using a strong rope, the farm boy managed to picket the injured bull to a fence post to keep it stable and calm.
To keep the cows from escaping into neighboring properties, each was picketed to a specific area within the large farm.

Serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs".

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

The union decided to picket the factory gates in protest of the workers' unfair wages.
Labor activists will picket the new company headquarters to show their displeasure with the outsourcing policy.
Residents took to the streets to picket the local government office in opposition to the proposed land development.
Environmentalists organized a protest to picket the logging company that was threatening to destroy the old-growth forest.
The student groups planned to picket the university administration building to express their concerns about rising tuition fees.