Picket vs. Stake — What's the Difference?

A pointed stake often driven into the ground to support a fence, secure a tent, tether animals, mark points in surveying, or, when pointed at the top, serve as a defense.

A piece of wood or metal pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a marker, fence pole, or tent peg.

A detachment of one or more troops, ships, or aircraft held in readiness or advanced to warn of an enemy's approach

A vertical post to which an offender is bound for execution by burning.

A person or group of persons stationed outside a place of employment, usually during a strike, to express grievance or protest and discourage entry by nonstriking employees or customers.

Execution by burning. Used with the

A person or group of persons present outside a building to protest.

A vertical post secured in a socket at the edge of a platform, as on a truck bed, to help retain the load.

To enclose, secure, tether, mark out, or fortify with pickets.

Mormon Church A territorial division consisting of a group of wards under the jurisdiction of a president.

To post as a picket.

Often stakes Money or property risked in a wager or gambling game.

To guard with a picket.

The prize awarded the winner of a contest or race.

To post a picket or pickets during a strike or demonstration.

A race offering a prize to the winner, especially a horserace in which the prize consists of money contributed equally by the horse owners.

To act or serve as a picket.

A share or an interest in an enterprise, especially a financial share.

A stake driven into the ground.

Personal interest or involvement

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

Something, such as a crucial change or grave consequence, that may result from a situation

A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

A grubstake.

(military) 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.

To mark the location or limits of with stakes. Often used with out

A sentry.

To claim, establish, or register as one's own. Often used with out

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

To fasten, secure, or support with a stake or stakes

The card game piquet.

To tether or tie to a stake.

(intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

To impale with a stake.

(transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

To gamble or risk; hazard

(transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

To provide with money; finance

(transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

(Sports) To provide a lead for

To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

(croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.

A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.

A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; - called also outlying picket.

The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.

By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.

A share or interest in a business or a given situation.

A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

A game at cards. See Piquet.

A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.

To fortify with pointed stakes.

(Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

(transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.

To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

(transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.

To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

(transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.

To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

(transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.

A person employed to watch for something to happen

(cryptocurrency) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.

A detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.

A protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

A stick inserted upright in a loop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.

A vehicle performing sentinel duty

The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.

A wooden strip forming part of a fence

A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, - used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.

Serve as pickets or post pickets;

That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

Fasten with a picket;

A territorial division; - called also stake of Zion.

To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.

To mark the limits of by stakes; - with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.

To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.

To pierce or wound with a stake.

(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something;

A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);

Instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning

The money risked on a gamble

Put at risk;

Place a bet on;

Mark with a stake;

Tie or fasten to a stake;

Kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole;