Noun: piquet pi'ket or pi'key
- A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
"The elderly gentlemen met every afternoon for a game of 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
"The soldier endured the piquet punishment for hours";
- picket
Derived forms: piquets
Type of: card game, cards, torture, torturing
Encyclopedia: Piquet, Kelly