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Stake

//steɪk// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
"We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders."
2
a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground wordnet
3
A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
4
instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning wordnet
5
A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.

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a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) wordnet
7
The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned. with-definite-article
"Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake."
8
(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something wordnet
9
A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
"The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business."
10
the money risked on a gamble wordnet
11
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
12
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
13
A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area. Mormonism
"Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men."

Verb

1
To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. transitive
"to stake vines or plants"
2
place a bet on wordnet
3
To pierce or wound with a stake. transitive
"You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it."
4
kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole wordnet
5
To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. transitive
"I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys."

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mark with a stake wordnet
7
To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture. transitive
"John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him."
8
tie or fasten to a stake wordnet
9
To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
"Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner."
10
put at risk wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

English surname, from the noun stake. Compare Staff, Stack.

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