Picquet

Quick meaning: Picquet is a noun meaning (military) Archaic form of picket.

Meaning

(military) Archaic form of picket.

More Meanings

1. Alternative form of piquet (“card game”).

Example Sentences

Sometimes, it is true, Gertrude's resistance flagged; but this was only the temporary acquiescence of fatigue, and the battle was renewed with the old spirit on the next occasion, and was all to be fought over again. At breakfast there was generally, as I may say, an affair of picquets, and through the day a dropping fire, sometimes rising to a skirmish; but the social meal of supper was generally the period when, for the most part, these desultory hostilities blazed up into a general action.

Word Forms

• picquets
• picqueting
• picqueted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include piquet, pequin, jacquet, picard.

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