[military] A 1901 illustration for `Break, Break, Break`, an elegy by Lord Tennyson written in 1835 for his friend Arthur Hallam, who had died two years previously. Written during a period of relative isolation at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, the poem uses minimalistic terms and forgoes decorative aspects. In his biography of Tennyson, Michae...
• (n.) See Piquet.
Pic'quet noun See Piquet .