A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
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 [syn: picket, piquet]
Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See Pique, Pike,
and Picket.]
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.]
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