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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Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..
Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Accuracy :: Accuracy (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy..
Misdevotion :: Misdevotion (n.) Mistaken devotion.
Miss :: Miss (n.) Harm from mistake.
Misinterpretation :: Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
Aright :: Aright (adv.) Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright..
Split :: Split (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Faux Pas :: faux pas () A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.
Misconfident :: Misconfident (a.) Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
Yead :: Yead (v. i.) Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede..
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Mistakenness :: Mistakenness (n.) Erroneousness.
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