·noun ·see Picket.
II. Piquet ·noun A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
A proportion of a force set apart and kept on the alert for the security of the whole. The outlyin...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose