Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun piquet

2 senses of piquet

Sense 1
piquet -- (a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards)
       => card game, cards -- (a game played with playing cards)

Sense 2
picket, piquet -- (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)
       => torture, torturing -- (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession")