Anagrams of: PECTIN__

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• 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.

• a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community

• a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• foredoom to failure

• At the home of

• the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)