piquet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
  2. noun 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.

WordNet

Piqu"et noun
Definitions
  1. See Picket. R.
Pi*quet" noun
Etymology
F., prob. fr. pique. See Pique, Pike, and Picket.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913