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STAKES
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English
English : nickname for a person who insisted on a strict code of social behavior.German : topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, from Middle High German stickel ‘hill’, ‘slope’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant; in the south an occupational name for someone who shapes and sets stakes in vineyards.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who made and drove in stakes, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary post for example, from a derivative of Middle English stake ‘post’, ‘stake’.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Newcastle and Durham)
English (mainly Newcastle and Durham) : of uncertain origin, probably a derivative of northern Middle English stang ‘pole’ (of Old Norse origin). Possible meanings include a topographic name for someone who lived by a pole or stake (compare Stakes) or an occupational name for someone armed with one. Alternatively, it may be a nickname for someone who had ‘ridden the stang’, i.e. been carried on a pole through the streets as an object of derision, in punishment for some misdemeanor. However, this custom is of uncertain antiquity.Orcadian : probably a habitational name from a minor place called Stanagar in the parish of Stromness.German : occupational name for a maker of shafts for spears and the like, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stange ‘pole’, ‘shaft’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent post or stake, for example a boundary marker, from Middle English stake ‘post’, ‘stake’, or from the same word used as a nickname for a tall, thin person.
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Boy/Male
Arthurian Legend
Father of Guinevere.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for someone who behaved in a masterful manner, or an occupational name for someone who was master of his craft or a schoolmaster, from Middle English maister (Old French maistre, Latin magister). In early instances this surname was often borne by people who were franklins or other substantial freeholders, presumably because they had laborers under them to work their lands. In Scotland Master was the title given to administrators of medieval hospitals, as well as being born by the eldest sons of barons; thus, the surname may also have been acquired as a metonymic occupational name by someone in the service of such.Either a dialect form or an Americanized form of German Meister.Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city) : Parsi occupational name for someone who was a master of his craft, from the English word master.
Female
Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chana, CHANNA means "favor; grace." In the bible, this is the name of the mother of Samuel and wife to Elkanah.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Dragon; Modern Variant of Drake
Male
English
Anglicized form of Babylonian Beltesha'tstsar, BELTESHAZZAR means "Ba'al's prince." In the bible, this is Daniel the prophet's Babylonian name.Â
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Divine Heart
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a variant of Skoyles, a Norfolk name of unexplained etymology.
Girl/Female
Australian, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Army Man; Feminine of Armando
Girl/Female
Australian, French, German, Irish
God is Gracious
Girl/Female
African, Arabic, Indian, Sanskrit, Swahili
Calm; Bright; The Sun; Kills; Born at the Time of a Wedding; Marriage; Bride; Wedding
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v. t.
To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
v. t.
To fortify with pointed stakes.
n.
A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
n.
One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
n.
To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
n.
A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
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.
v.
A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
n.
A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
n.
A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
n.
Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
v. t.
To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
n.
A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
n.
A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
v. t.
An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
v. t.
To take the spars, stakes, or bars from.
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.
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.
n.
A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.