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noun • A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. • A stake driven into the ground. • A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. • A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. • 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. • (sometimes figurative) A sentry. • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself. • The card game piquet. verb • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment. • To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. • To tether to, or as if to, a picket. • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. • To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. | ||||||||
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| 41% | 8 | A playing card that can represent any other card in a card game | ||||||
noun • an unpredictable factor • a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it | ||||||||
Detachment Of Soldiers Holding Clubs In Card Game Crossword Clue
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PICQUET which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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PICQUET
Updated: October 14, 2023
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The Guardian Cryptic -
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