PIQUET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piquet mean? 

• PIQUET (noun)
  The noun PIQUET has 2 senses:

1. a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards

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

  Familiarity information: PIQUET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIQUET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("piquet" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

picket; piquet

Hypernyms ("piquet" is a kind of...):

torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)

 Context examples 

Mr. Hurst and Mr. Bingley were at piquet, and Mrs. Hurst was observing their game.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She loves piquet, you know; but when she is gone home, I am afraid you will be sitting up by yourself, instead of going to bed at your usual time—and the idea of that would entirely destroy my comfort.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mary Anne's cousin deserted into our coal-hole, and was brought out, to our great amazement, by a piquet of his companions in arms, who took him away handcuffed in a procession that covered our front-garden with ignominy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here, however, the kindness of Mrs. Jennings interposed most acceptably; for to send the Colonel away while his love was in so much uneasiness on her sister's account, would be to deprive them both, she thought, of every comfort; and therefore telling him at once that his stay at Cleveland was necessary to herself, that she should want him to play at piquet of an evening, while Miss Dashwood was above with her sister, &c. she urged him so strongly to remain, that he, who was gratifying the first wish of his own heart by a compliance, could not long even affect to demur; especially as Mrs. Jennings's entreaty was warmly seconded by Mr. Palmer, who seemed to feel a relief to himself, in leaving behind him a person so well able to assist or advise Miss Dashwood in any emergence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)