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Pool :: Pool (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes..

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..

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..

Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

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

Right :: Right (a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith..

Split :: Split (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

Bet :: Bet (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

Pious :: Pious (a.) Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds..

Gross :: Gross (superl.) Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence..

Yead :: Yead (v. i.) Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede..

Empalement :: Empalement (n.) A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes..

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

Misprise :: Misprise (v. t.) To mistake.

Staktometer :: Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

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

Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..

Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence..

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