Definition of stake

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Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc..

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Misinterpretation :: Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Hyacinth :: Hyacinth (n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru..
Game :: Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble..
Accuracy :: Accuracy (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy..
Mistaken :: Mistaken (p. p.) of Mistak.
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet..
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Misprision :: Misprision (n.) The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
Misprint :: Misprint (n.) A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints..
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..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants..
Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.
Hallucination :: Hallucination (n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
Inerringly :: Inerringly (adv.) Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly..
Inaccuracy :: Inaccuracy (n.) That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc..
Misworship :: Misworship (n.) Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.
Trunch :: Trunch (n.) A stake; a small post.
Impalement :: Impalement (n.) An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed..
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