PICQUET
(noun, verb)Definitions
Picquet - as a 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 stake driven into the ground.
Example: "A picket fence"
A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
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.
(sometimes figurative) a sentry.
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
Example: "Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent."
The card game piquet.
Picquet - as a verb
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
Example: "To picket a horse"
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Word Game Points
PICQUET has a SCRABBLE points total of 20.
PICQUET has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 23.
PICQUET has a WORDFEUD points total of 23.
