Game Played With A Piquet Deck Crossword Clue

• 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.

• 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.

• (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391)

• Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846)

• the pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585)

• the Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417)

• the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085)

• (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)