piquet

Plural: piquets

Noun

• A card game for two players, popular in the 17th century.
• 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
• A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
• Archaic form of picket.

Verb

• Archaic form of picket.

Examples

• He wondered if PIQUET was as strategic as Scrabble, or just simpler.

Synonyms

picket