A proportion of a force set apart and kept on the alert for the security of the whole.
The outlying piquet, some distance from the main body, watches all hostile approach.
The inlying piquet is ready to act in case of internal disorder, or of alarm.
·noun ·see <<Picket>>. II. Piquet ·noun A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose