piquet

Noun
Synonyms: picket

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  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 stakeSynonyms: picket
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Piquet \Piqu"et\, n. See Picket. [R.] [1913 Webster]
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]
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