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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Adventure :: Adventure (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat..
Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround..
Misclaim :: Misclaim (n.) A mistaken claim.
Mistaker :: Mistaker (n.) One who mistakes.
Staktometer :: Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
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..
Sweepwasher :: Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..
Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
Mistakenly :: Mistakenly (adv.) By mistake.
Misworship :: Misworship (n.) Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.
Painstaker :: Painstaker (n.) One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work.
Staking :: Staked (imp. & p. p.) of Stak.
Stake :: 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..
Unspar :: Unspar (v. t.) To take the spars, stakes, or bars from..
Stakeholder :: Stakehead (n.) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
Sweepstake :: Sweepstake (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
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