Definition of stake

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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..

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Miscopy :: Miscopy (n.) A mistake in copying.
Detect :: Detect (v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
Mistakable :: Mistakable (a.) Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.
Postentry :: Postentry (n.) A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake..
Mistaken :: Mistaken (p.a.) Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken..
Misclaim :: Misclaim (n.) A mistaken claim.
Bridestake :: Bridestake (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round..
Rover :: Rover (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball..
Raffle :: Raffle (v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor..
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..
Misprision :: Misprision (n.) The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
Err :: Err (v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
Erroneous :: Erroneous (a.) Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc..
Welter :: Welter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes..
Unspar :: Unspar (v. t.) To take the spars, stakes, or bars from..
Rung :: Rung (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
Misknow :: Misknow (v. t.) To have a mistaken notion of or about.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
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