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  1. noun A piece of wood or metal pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a marker, fence pole, or tent peg.
  2. noun A vertical post to which an offender is bound for execution by burning.
  3. noun Execution by burning. Used with the: condemned to the stake.
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  • Tubberman had been quick to clad his buildings with metal, so his stake was as safe as those precautions could make it. —  Dragons Dawn
  • The galleys, and the rack, and the stake are their certain doom; for the Inquisition claims the bodies and souls of heretics all over the world, and thinks it sin to lose its own. —  Sir Walter Raleigh and his Times
  • Market analysts say upping their stake is a vote of confidence by promoters in their own company†™ s future and also a sign that the equity market may be bottoming out. —  The Economic Times
  • - Fort Lee, NJ-based mobile gaming firm SkyZone Entertainment has sold a majority stake to VSST, a Korea-based software company ... the stake was acquired from SK C&C, another Korean IT services company. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • At this stake is my proposed thesis: that is, Huntington's ideas and works should be read, explained and interpreted in terms of the embedded scholarship within the larger political interests of the American imperial power over the rest of the world. —  The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

pole ·  axe ·  stick ·  rope ·  spear ·  plank ·  log ·  knife ·  rod ·  spike ·  nail ·  shaft

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stake:   stakes ·  Stake ·  staked
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English staca.

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  1. from Middle English stake, from Anglo-Saxon staca, a stake, a pin, = OFries. stake = Middle Dutch stake, staecke, staeck, Dutch staak, a stake, post, = Middle Low German stake, a stake, post, pillory, prison, Low German stake, later O. staken, a stake, = Icelandic stjaki, a stake, pole, candlestick, = Swedish stake, a stake, a candlestick, = Danish stage, a stake (Scandinavian forms apparently from Low German); cf. Old High German stachulla, stacchulla, Middle High German G. stachel, a sting; from the root of stick (Anglo-Saxon *stecan, preterit *stæc): see stick, v., and cf. stick, n., stack. Cf. Old French estake, estaque, estacke, estacque, stake, also estache, estaiche, stache, etc., a stake, prop, bar, etc., = Spanish Portuguese estaca, a stake, = Italian stacca, a hook, from Teutonic
  2. from Middle English staken = Middle Dutch Middle Low German staken (= Old French estachier = Spanish estacar), stake; from the noun.
  3. from stake, n.
 

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