Etymology

picket

pick·et
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Today it means: A stake driven into the ground. Full definition →

French piquet
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The story

  1. French · derived frompiquet
  2. English todaypicket

From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.