These are the meanings of the letters KLEPTIC when you unscramble them.
-
Picket (n.)
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
-
Picket (n.)
A game at cards. See Piquet.
-
Picket (n.)
A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
-
Picket (n.)
A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
-
Picket (n.)
A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
-
Picket (n.)
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.
-
Picket (v. t.)
To fortify with pointed stakes.
-
Picket (v. t.)
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
-
Picket (v. t.)
To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
-
Picket (v. t.)
To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
-
Picket (v. t.)
To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
-
Pickle (n.)
See Picle.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
-
Pickle (v. t.)
Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
-
Tickle (a.)
Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
-
Tickle (a.)
Ticklish; easily tickled.
-
Tickle (a.)
Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
-
Tickle (v. i.)
To excite the sensation of titillation.
-
Tickle (v. i.)
To feel titillation.
-
Tickle (v. t.)
To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
-
Tickle (v. t.)
To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.