1890 R. Kipling ii. 29 Two steamers were rock-staked on the Nile outside the city.
1896 R. Kipling 131 Thou hast not toiled at the fishing..Nor worked the war-boats outward through the rush of the rock-staked seas.
1924 R. Clements (1929) ix. 174 Astern of us were the rippling, rock-staked waters of the Bay.