intransitive. To wager, hazard money, on the event of a game or contest. Now apprehended as absolute use of sense 3.

absol. or intransitive. To put down a stake, lay money on (or at). Also figurative to give a challenge to. Obsolete or archaic.

transitive and intransitive. Cards. To put (a chip or sum of money) into play; to stake (a chip or sum of money); = to chip in 2a. Now rare.