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| 99% | 4 | ACTE | Exact Match! | |||||
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| 38% | 7 | Featured in Alexandre Dumas' novel | ||||||
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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| Source | #Number | Answer |
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| New York Times19 Nov 1995 | Down 142 | ACTE |
| New York Times15 Jan 1995 | Down 114 | ACTE |
| New York Times12 Mar 1979 | Down 15 | CAMILLE |
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