PICQUET

Etymology 1

Noun

picquet (uncountable)

Alternative form of piquet (“card game”)

Etymology 2

Noun

picquet (plural picquets)

(military) Archaic form of picket.

Verb

picquet (third-person singular simple present picquets, present participle picqueting, simple past and past participle picqueted)

(military) Archaic form of picket.

Etymology

Proper noun

Picquet (plural er-noun)

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary


Pic"quet, n.

Definition: See Piquet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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