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Game :: Game (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc..

Land :: Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes..

Misconfident :: Misconfident (a.) Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.

Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge..

Impone :: Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.

Picket :: Picket (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses..

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Inadvertency :: Inadvertency (n.) The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence..

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

Trou-de-loup :: Trou-de-loup (n.) A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes..

Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..

Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To take or choose wrongly.

Clayes :: Clayes (n. pl.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments..

Staking :: Staked (imp. & p. p.) of Stak.

Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

Welter :: Welter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes..

Trip :: Trip (n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail..

Undeceive :: Undeceive (v. t.) To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake..

Impalement :: Impalement (n.) An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..

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