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[syn: picket, piquet]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Piquet \Piqu"et\, n.
See Picket. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See Pique, Pike,
and Picket.]
A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two
cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being
set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
piquet
n 1: a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32
cards
2: 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 [syn: picket, piquet]