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Definition of Stake

Stake A territorial division; -- called also stake of Zion. 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. 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. The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge. To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants. To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road. To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge. To pierce or wound with a stake. Related Definitions: Affixed, Also, And, Anvil, As, At, Be, Bench, Burned, By, Called, Car, Cart, Competition, Contingency, Defend, Division, Down, Driven, Easily, End, Enter, Eye, Falling, Fasten, Fire, Flat, For, From, Furnished, Future, Goods, Ground, Hazard, Hazarded, Hence, Hole, In, Inserted, Into, Is, Issue, Laid, Land, Like, Long, Lop, Zion, Light, Mark, Martyr, Martyrdom, Mortise, New, Of, Off, One, Or, Out, Piece, Pierce, Pledge, Pointed, Prevent, Punching, Put, Road, Side, Slender, Small, So, Stake, Staked, Stay, Stick, Support, Tang, Territorial, That, The, Timber, To, Top, Upon, Upright, Used, Wager, Was, Which, With, Wood, Work, Wound

Stake Quotations You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. Michael T. Thomas I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me. Larry King Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. Gertrude Stein

Stake Translations stake in Dutch is stijl, paal, post, deurpost stake in German is Marterpfahl, Beteiligung {f}, Einsatz, Anteil {m} stake in Italian is stanga, missione stake in Latin is talea stake in Portuguese is estaca stake in Spanish is poste, puesta stake in Swedish is stake, insats, satsa

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