The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PICKET
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More clues leading to the result PICKET
- Choose out-of-this-world person to encourage workers to strike
- Choice tips from expert getting post
- Ancient Briton carrying King Edward to stake
- Try to stop others going to best film
- Watch choice film
- Pale, something to do with one’s nose, say
- Workers demonstrating tool first taken from set
- Pale old Caledonian gathers energy from moving about
- Strike enforcer takes nothing from coal product in mine
- Kind of fence that’s assembled to keep workers out
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What does PICKET mean?
PICKET noun- A stake driven into the ground.
- A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- 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.
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- The card game piquet.
- To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- 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 torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.