piquet

from 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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Piquet \Piqu"et\, n.
   See {Picket}. [R.]
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from 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]

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