Anagrams of: PICKETFENCE

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

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

• a vehicle performing sentinel duty

• a wooden strip forming part of a fence

• a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake

• serve as pickets or post pickets

• fasten with a picket

• neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the quantity of a crop that is harvested

• the best people or things in a group

• the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

• a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

• a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

• a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body

• the act of choosing or selecting

• select carefully from a group

• look for and gather

• harass with constant criticism

• provoke

• remove in small bits

• remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits

• pilfer or rob

• pay for something

• pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

• attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

• hit lightly with a picking motion

• eat intermittently; take small bites of

• edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

• a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point

• any long thin projection that is transient

• use a knife on

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

• a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

• a light kiss

• bite by a bird

• hit lightly with a picking motion

• eat by pecking at, like a bird

• kiss lightly

• eat like a bird

• bother persistently with trivial complaints

• of or relating to or derived from pectin

• communicate a disease to

• contaminate with a disease or microorganism

• corrupt with ideas or an ideology

• affect in a contagious way

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• take the place of work of someone on strike

• confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure