piquet

noun

A card game for two people, played with a deck from which all cards below the seven, aces being high, are omitted.

noun

Milit. See picket.

noun

A game at cards played between two persons with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside: players score for carte blanche, or a hand of only plain cards, point, or a hand with the strongest suit, sequence, quatorze, trio, and pique and repique.

noun

See picket.

noun

A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

noun

A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

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

noun

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