Definition of stake

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

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All :: All (n.) The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake..
Palate :: Palate (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
Undeceive :: Undeceive (v. t.) To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake..
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Bank :: Bank (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses..
Misapprehension :: Misapprehension (n.) A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
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..
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..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Mistaken :: Mistaken (p. p.) of Mistak.
Sweepwasher :: Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
Croupier :: Croupier (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.
Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..
Grand :: Grand (superl.) Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake..
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge..
Trou-de-loup :: Trou-de-loup (n.) A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
Gamble :: Gamble (v. i.) To play or game for money or other stake.
Swop :: Swoopstake (adv.) Altogether; indiscriminately.
Pool :: Pool (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes..
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