Piquet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Piquet	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Piquet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piquet n a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards 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 Synonym(s): picket, piquet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Piquet \Piqu"et\, n. See {Picket}. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]