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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Blunder :: Blunder (n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance..
Misremember :: Misremember (v. t. & i.) To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Stake-driver :: Stake (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.
Jeofail :: "Jeofail (n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight..
Impone :: Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
Erroneous :: Erroneous (a.) Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc..
Mistook :: Mistook () imp. & obs. p. p. of Mistake.
Pale :: Pale (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket..
Wear :: Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish..
Paxillose :: Paxillose (a.) Resembling a little stake.
Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..
Gamester :: Gamester (n.) A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games..
Pool :: Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table..
Vie :: Vie (v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie..
Confound :: Confound (v. t.) To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround..
Ante :: Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins..
Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Trunch :: Trunch (n.) A stake; a small post.
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another..
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