Piquet

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A card game for two people, played with a deck from which all cards below the seven, aces being high, are omitted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See picket.
  • n. A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Milit. See picket.
  • n. 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.
  • n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • n. a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    torturing    torture    card game    cards   
    Variant
    picket    picquet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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