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Noun: piquet  pi'ket or pi'key
  1. A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
    "The elderly gentlemen met every afternoon for a game of piquet"
     
  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
    "The soldier endured the piquet punishment for hours";
    - picket

Derived forms: piquets

Type of: card game, cards, torture, torturing

Encyclopedia: Piquet, Kelly