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Piquet

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

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Variants

synonym
picket
plural
Piquets
possessive
Piquet's
pluralpossessive
Piquets'