picquet

noun

A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

1. A stake driven into the ground.

   a picket fence

2. A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. 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.
5. (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

   Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

7. The card game piquet.

1. To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

   to picket a horse

4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.