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Stake is American slang for a saved sum of money; a store of provisions.
Stakey is Canadian slang for well provided with money.
Pole used in dangerous and now rare method of switching. A cut of cars was shoved by a stake attached to the car immediately in front of the engine. This method was supposed to be superior to the ordinary method of "batting them out" because there was less wear and tear on drawbars and less damage to freight; but the human casualties that resulted gave more than one yard the nickname "slaughterhouse." Another meaning of stake is the money a boomer saved on a job so he could resign and continue eating regularly while looking for another job
stakes or posts
A drag race where the stakes are the car’s pink slip (hot-rodders)
v stake a claim for something in the same way that Americans would claim “dibbs” on or “call” some item or privilege: I bagsie the front seat or Bagsie first shot on the dodgems! It’s a rather childlike sentiment; you would be less likely to hear I bagsie being Financial Director! It doesn’t seem ridiculously far-fetched that it’d be derived from “bags I,” with “bag” meaning to catch something. But hey, who can tell. [Etymologists. –ed.]
Bankroll, stake Punch (as in “take a poke atâ€)
Any engineering-department man
To depart in a hurry. Same as "cut stick."
a small, mean trader; an usurer with small capital; small cubes of tobacco used as stakes in playing cards
Pole used to shove cars into the clear when switching. (See stake)
Stakeout is slang for a police surveillance of an area, house, or criminal suspect.
v brief, low-stake foray into gambling. Many people “have a flutter” on the Grand National horse race once a year, or the odd boxing match. Anything more regular and it’s just straight gambling.
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Look up stake, stakes, or stäke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A stake is a large wooden or metal implement designed to be driven into the ground
Stake is a Curaçaoan cryptocurrency-based online casino operated by Medium Rare NV, a company incorporated in Curaçao that holds an online casino licence
ATstake, Inc. (stylized as @stake) was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in
up staking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Staking may refer to: Staking (manufacturing), a process for connecting two components Poker staking, the
best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where the condemned is bound to a large wooden stake and a fire lit beneath. A holocaust is a religious
Stake (stylized in all caps), formerly known as Steak Number Eight, is a Belgian post-metal/sludge metal band based in Wevelgem. Their music is a combination
Proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols are a class of consensus mechanisms for blockchains that work by selecting validators in proportion to their quantity of
At Stake (Indonesian: Pertaruhan, lit. 'Betting') is a 2017 Indonesian action drama film directed by Krishto Damar Alam and written by Upi Avianto. The
A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in certain denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. The name "stake" derives
Stake Land is a 2010 American post apocalyptic vampire horror film directed by Jim Mickle and starring Nick Damici, who cowrote the script with Mickle
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A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
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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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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.
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A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
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The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
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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.
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A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.
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A stake hazarded in a wager.
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To pierce or wound with a stake.
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To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
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Resembling a little stake.
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A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
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Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
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The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
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To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
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That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
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A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
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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.
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To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
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