Definition of piquets Piquets
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What does piquets mean?
Part of speech
🔤- piquets, noun, plural of piquet.
WordNet
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| piquet - a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | ||
| piquet - 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 | ||
| picket | ||
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Wiktionary 
- piquet (Noun)
A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- piquet (n.)
See Picket. - piquet (n.)
A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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piquet
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piquet
pi-ket′, n. a game at cards.—n. Pique, in piquet, the scoring of 30 points in one hand before the other side scores at all. [Picket.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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piquet
A proportion of a force set apart and kept on the alert for the security of the whole.--The outlying piquet, some distance from the main body, watches all hostile approach.--The inlying piquet is ready to act in case of internal disorder, or of alarm.
Part of speech
🔤- piquet, noun, singular of piquets.
