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See Picket. [R.]

id to have been invented at Venice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

A game at cards. See Piquet. Inlying picket (Mil.), a detachment of troops held in camp or quarters, detailed to march if called upon. -- Picket fence, a fence made of pickets. See def. 2, above. -- Picket guard (Mil.), a guard of horse and foot, always in readiness in case of alarm. -- Picket line. (Mil.) (a) A pos…

See Piquet.

In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.

The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.

A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.