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Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..

Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

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

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

Sweepstakes :: Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed..

Venture :: Venture (n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade..

Painstaker :: Painstaker (n.) One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work.

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..

Misthought :: Misthought (n.) Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error.

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off..

Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

Tether :: Tether (n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits..

Stakeholder :: Stakehead (n.) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar..

Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..

Misclaim :: Misclaim (n.) A mistaken claim.

Mistaker :: Mistaker (n.) One who mistakes.

Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming..

Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround..

Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..

Sweepwasher :: Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.

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