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Piquet

nounid 104300·updated May 18, 2026
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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'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
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
§2
a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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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