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picquet

picquet is the alternative form of piquet.

picquet is the archaic form of picket.

Meaning of piquet

Noun

piquet (uncountable)

  1. A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
    • Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii

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Meaning of picket

Noun

picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)

  1. A stake driven into the ground.
    • a picket fence
  2. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
  3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
  4. One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
    • So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 59
  5. (figuratively, sometimes) A sentry.
    • Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
  6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
    • Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

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Proper noun capitalized: Picquet

Picquet

  1. A surname from French.

Forms of picquet

Noun
pluralpicquets
Verb
third-person singular presentpicquets
present participlepicqueting
past participlepicqueted
pastpicqueted

Origin of picquet

From French Picquet.

Questions about picquet

What does picquet mean?
Picquet means a surname from French.
What is picquet the alternative form of?
Picquet is the alternative form of piquet.
What part of speech is picquet?
Picquet is a proper noun.

Words near picquet in the dictionary

  1. PICOWs
  2. picoxystrobin
  3. picozoan
  4. picozoans
  5. picquerism
  6. picquet
  7. picqueted
  8. picqueter
  9. picqueters
  10. picqueting
  11. picquets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picquet (page history and authors); Picquet (page history and authors); piquet (page history and authors); picket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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