"piquet" meaning in English

See piquet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pɪˈkɛt/, /pɪˈkeɪ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piquet.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piquet2.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: From French piquet. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|piquet}} French piquet Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} piquet (uncountable)
  1. (card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Card games Synonyms: picquet [obsolete], picket Translations (a game of cards): пикет (piket) [masculine] (Bulgarian), pikedo (Esperanto), piketti (Finnish), piquet [masculine] (French), Piquet [neuter] (German), Pikett [neuter] (German), piketo (Ido), пике́т (pikét) [masculine] (Macedonian), пике́т (pikét) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-piquet-en-noun-hMDFTW~G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 10 11 Topics: card-games, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: piquets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} piquet (plural piquets)
  1. (military) Archaic form of picket. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: picket Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-piquet-en-noun-jBEtFZPi Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: piquets [present, singular, third-person], piqueting [participle, present], piqueted [participle, past], piqueted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} piquet (third-person singular simple present piquets, present participle piqueting, simple past and past participle piqueted)
  1. (military) Archaic form of picket. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: picket Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-piquet-en-verb-jBEtFZPi Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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