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staken.1

Brit. /steɪk/, U.S. /steɪk/
Forms: Old English staca, Middle English, 1600s stak, Middle English–1500s Scottish and northern staik (1500s steyk), 1500s stack, 1500s–1600s stacke, Middle English– stake.
Etymology: Old English staca weak masculine corresponds to Old Frisian, Middle Dutch stake masculine and feminine (Dutch staak masculine), (Middle) Low German stake (whence Middle High German, modern German stake , staken , and probably Middle Swedish staki , Swedish, Norwegian stake , Danish stage ), < *stak- ablaut-variant of *stek- to pierce, thrust in: see steek v.2, stick v.1 The Germanic word was adopted in Romance as Provençal estaca , Spanish estaca , Portuguese estaca , Old French estaque , estache , Italian stacca : see stacket n., estacade n.
1.
a. A stout stick or post, usually of wood, with a pointed end for driving into the ground; used e.g. to mark a boundary or site, to support a plant, to secure an animal, to form one of the component parts of a fence, hedge, or the like.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake
stakec893
studeOE
studdleeOE
stealc1000
stockc1000
postOE
stander1325
pillar1360
stilpc1380
bantelc1400
puncheon1423
stanchion1433
standard1439
side tree1451
stancher1488
stanchel1586
stipit1592
shore1601
trunch1622
arrectary1628
staddle1633
standing1800
mill-post1890
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
stingc725
stakec893
sowelc900
tree971
rungOE
shaftc1000
staffc1000
stockc1000
poleOE
spritOE
luga1250
lever1297
stanga1300
perchc1300
raftc1330
sheltbeam1336
stower1371
palea1382
spar1388
spire1392
perk1396
ragged staff1397
peela1400
slot1399
plantc1400
heck-stower1401
sparkin1408
cammockc1425
sallow stakec1440
spoke1467
perk treec1480
yard1480
bode1483
spit1485
bolm1513
gada1535
ruttock1542
stob1550
blade1558
wattle1570
bamboo1598
loggat1600
barling1611
sparret1632
picket1687
tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > post
stakec893
mere-staff1552
mere stake1629
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > stake > stake for displaying head
headstockOE
stakec1475
prick1651
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling > a stake
pale board1483
garden pale1591
stab1680
paling1820
stake1897
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. v Ac þære ilcan niht þe mon on dæg hæfde þa burg mid stacum gemearcod, swa [etc.].
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 395 & sleah ænne stacan on middan þam ymbhagan & lege þone stan on uppan þam stacan.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 338 On a stake of pere-tre.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 83 A tente of cloth with corde and stake He sette up ferst.
a1440 Sir Degrev. 1120 Syxty stedus he wan, And brouȝth to stak.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 82 A sadder vyne a bigger stake olofte Mot holde; a lighter vyne is with a lesse Stakynge vpholde.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 260 Þe hed of þat hardy He sette on a stake.
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 13 Dyvers newe Weris, Gores, Stakes and Engyns have bene levyd and enhauncid; By reason wherof, the said Haven is greatly decayed ageyn.
1534 in J. Croft Excerpta Ant. (1797) 17 For a Steyk of vj Nyks for Stapys to a Grese, ij d.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 93 The Ground is not firm to build on, but doth require stakes to be droven.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 504 His Body was drawn by a Horse to the Gallowes..and buried under it, with a Stake driven through him, as is usual in the Case of self Murtherers.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 136 I set my Dog to guard it in the Night, tying him up to a Stake at the Gate.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 437 The farmer's hedge, Plash'd neatly, and secur'd with driven stakes Deep in the loamy bank.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 255 We find it completely fenced across with stout stakes.
figurative.1567 Gude & Godlie Ball. 186 O cankerit carionnis, and o ye rottin stakis.1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 7 As the truth is, their ministers forrein estimation hitherto hath beene the best stake in their hedge.1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 83 Thus to plucke vp all the stakes and bounds of Gods æternall..Decrees.Proverbial uses.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 8 I fro hire go Ne mai, bot as it were a stake, I stonde.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7526 Bot þar he stod als still os stake.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diiiv For any great courtesy he doth make, It semth the gentyll man hath eaten a stake.a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods ii. ix. 39 in Wks. (1640) III Drest, you still for man should take him; And not thinke h' had eat a stake.
b. A post upon which persons were bound for execution, esp. by burning. Hence the stake is used as a name for the punishment of death by burning.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > stake
stakec1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8326 Samuel nom Agag þene king..& lette hine swiðe sterke to ane stake [c1300 Otho stocke] binde.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 35 Scho was..bun by a stake and fagotes of thornes..laide aboute hir.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1694 And he þg is at meschief shal be take And noght slayn but be broght vn to the stake That shal ben ordeyned.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1215/1 When they came to the stake in Smithfielde to be burned, Mayster Bradforde lyenge prostrate on the one syde of the stake, and..Iohn Leafe on the other syde.
1600 Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 209 The persoun convict thairof..sall be bund to ane staik within the floode merk during the space of thre houris, quhill the water flow round about him.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. iv. 15 Curse Miscreant, when thou comst to the stake . View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 124 When Religion is at the stake, there must be no lookers on.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 313 To be burnt to Death at a Stake.
1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 117 And my red right hand grows raging hot, Like Cranmer's at the stake.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. v. 98 ‘I know I would go to the stake for you,’ said Harry.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 7 When..the fortunes of the fight do not hurry the combatant to dungeon or stake.
c. The post to which a bull or bear was fastened to be baited.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > [noun] > stake
stake1546
baiting-stakea1616
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ix. sig. Cii With as good will as a beare goth to the stake.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. i. 48 Octa. Let vs do so: for we are at the stake, And bayed about with many Enemies. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iv. 98 Saw you a lusty Mastiue at the stake Throwne from a cunning Bull.
d. A post pointed at both ends for use in military defensive work (see quot. 1876).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [noun] > pole for palisade or stockade
stake1297
palisado1616
storm-pole1647
palisade1697
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1171 Stakes of ire monion he piȝte in temese grounde Aboue ssarpe & kene inou bineþ grete & rounde.
c1450 Brut ii. ccxliv. 378 He bade euery man to orden hym a stake of tre, and scharp both endis, þat þe stake myȝt be pyght yn the erthe a-slop, þat hir enymyez schulde not ouyr-ryde hem.
1637 J. Milton Comus 17 Come not too neere, you fall on iron stakes else.
1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Stakes, small pieces of wood..used as an obstacle against the advance of an attacking force, being sharply pointed and driven into the ground until only 1 foot or 2 feet project.
e. Phrases. (U.S.) to pick up stakes, to pull up stakes, to move stakes: to move one's habitation. Similarly to drive stakes, to set stakes, to stick one's stakes: to pitch one's camp or tent, to settle. to tie (someone) to the stake: see tie v. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > change residence
remove1388
flit1504
shift1530
to pull up stakes1703
movea1707
emigrate1841
uproota1961
to pick up stakes1974
society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence
wickc897
telda1325
buildc1340
nestlea1382
to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400
to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425
to take one's lodgec1475
reside1490
inhabit1548
to settle one's rest1562
to sit down1579
to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584
to set (up) one's rest1590
nest1591
to set down one's rest1591
roost1593
inherit1600
habituate1603
seat1612
to take up (one's) residencea1626
settle1627
pitch1629
fix1638
locate1652
to marry and settle1718
domesticate1768
domiciliate1815
to hang up one's hat1826
domicile1831
to stick one's stakes1872
homestead1877
to put down roots1882
to hang one's hat1904
localize1930
society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > stake claim
to set stakes1949
1703 S. Sewall Diary 15 Apr. (1973) I. 484 Went to my Bounds, asserted them,..then ordered Kibbee to pull up the Stakes. Told Mr. Lynde's Tenants what my Bounds were..; forwarn'd them of coming there to set any Stakes.
1817 J. K. Paulding Lett. from South I. 83 When they have exhausted one hunting-ground, [the Indians] pull up stakes, and incontinently march off to another.
1830 Massachusetts Spy 15 Dec. 1/4 Our departed emigrants..pulled up stakes,..and returned post haste to the good old town of Springfield.
1869 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp 178 He built the shanty..lest titles should fall through, and we'd have to get up and move stakes farther down.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 184 Where he settles, there he stakes or sticks his stakes.
1906 Outing Feb. 605/2 After drifting about several years I finally drove stakes on the Spokane River.
1924 ‘R. Daly’ Outpost xvii. 165 I've sometimes thought of pulling up stakes and pushing further into the mountains.
1949 Boston Globe 15 May (Fiction Mag.) 6/2 We'll set our stakes, an' I'll slip down to Dawson an' record the claim.
1974 ‘M. Allen’ Super Tour (1975) i. 23 ‘I'm assuming you're in a position to pick up stakes in a hurry.’ ‘As long as it will take to pack two bags.’
1980 Dallas Times Herald 10 May (Week End Suppl.) 6/1 The economic incentive that Europeans once had to pull up stakes and move to America.
2. collective singular. Stakes used as a framework or support in fencing and hedging; esp. as a basis for the intertwining, wattling, or plashing of brushwood or other materials.
a. stake (earlier †stakes) and rice (rice n.1 2a) Scottish and northern: a fence, hurdle, or partition made with these materials; also attributive.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > stake and brushwood fence
stanty hedge1446
stake (earlier stakes) and rice1457
rice-dike1677
stake and band1805
1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II, §30 (1814) II. 51/2 Þt na man mak gardes nor heggis of dry staikes na Rys or stykis.
1471–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 644 Pro posicione del stakez et ryss.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. vi. f. 84v/2 To byg ye wal betuix Abircorne and Dunbritane with staik and ryse.
1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith iv. 63 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) On stake and ryce, hee knits the crooked vines, And snoddes their bowes.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 278 Hurdles, (vulgarly called stake and rice) may be made round the links.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish vi. 70 The plantations supplied him with stabs to make stake and rice between his fields.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxv. 295 Giving his horse a good dig with his spurs, he lifted him over a stiff stake-and-rice fence.
2000 T. C. Smout Nature Contested ii. 49 There was an external enclosure maintained by the landowner, often of earth topped by stake and rice.
b. stake and band, stake and bond, stake and bound: see quot. 18051.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > stake and brushwood fence
stanty hedge1446
stake (earlier stakes) and rice1457
rice-dike1677
stake and band1805
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xxxiii The form of dead hedge usually termed stake and band, and sometimes stake and rise. In it the dead materials are wattled in between strong stakes.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 141 A stake and band hedge.
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iv Instead of taking the stake-and-bound at the weakest place, he rode at the strongest.
1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 161 This is the universal ‘stake and bond’ hedge of the shires, impenetrable to cattle.
c. stake and rider (see rider n. 12d), a fence made of stakes with a top bar; also attributive; hence stake-and-ridered adj. Chiefly North American.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > post-and-rail fence
rail fence1649
post and rail1653
post-and-rail fence1684
post-and-rail fencing1684
rail fencing1797
post and paling1823
stake and rider1829
Russell fence1890
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > that will serve as a fence > having a fence or paling > of specific construction (of fence)
stake-and-ridered1829
ridered1833
dogleg1836
staked and ridered1852
hog-tight1858
staked-and-bound1861
doglegged1891
1829 Massachusetts Spy 11 Feb. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) [He met] a man in a lane with a stake-and-rider fence on each side.
1846 Knickerbocker 27 208 Already the ‘stake and ridered’ fence was beginning to enclose the cleared land.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 443 Stake and rider, a species of fence higher and stronger than a ‘worm fence’.
1884 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier II. liv. 175 Again they followed him along a line of stake-and-rider fence.
1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 625/2 The stake-and-ridered fences everywhere.
1950 Pennsylvania Dutchman Jan. 3/3 He could do nothing better than to quickly place his gun behind him in a corner of a stake-and-rider fence.
3. A rung (of a ladder). Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > [noun] > rung or step
stepc1000
gangOE
stavec1175
tine?c1225
ladder stalea1250
degreec1290
rungc1300
staffc1325
stairc1400
ladder stavec1440
scalec1440
roundc1450
stakec1450
sprang1527
staver1534
rundle1565
rave1566
roundel1585
rondel1616
ladder rung1620
rowel1652
spokea1658
stower1674
stale1714
rim1788
tread1838
through1899
step iron1912
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 215 Iche of hem sytteth a-bouyn oþer on þis leddere on dyuers stakys.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 215 He sytteth on þe netherest stake of þis laddere in helle.
4. ? A stick (of a fan). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > hand-held or portable > stick(s) on which it is mounted
stake1640
stick1658
mounting1716
mount1735
1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 2 Sept. (1855) 44 Delyverit..ane silver coupe, ane stak of ane fann, [etc.].
5. Technical uses.
a. A small anvil used by metal-workers, esp. one with a tang for fitting into a socket on a bench. Also, a tool used by watchmakers and jewellers (see quot. 18842).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > types of
bickern1547
stake1660
welting stake1660
stag1688
table anvil1824
sparrow-hawk1869
teest1877
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > making watches > tools or materials used in watchmaking
wig-wag1582
turn-bench1680
fusee-engine1858
parachute1865
fraise1874
pinion-file1875
watch-oil1876
bouchon1881
spotter1881
bench winder1884
knee-punch1884
pinion bottoming file1884
pinion gauge1884
stake1884
wax lathe1884
turner1891
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > jeweller's tools
muffler1688
polishing mill1757
spit-sticker1837
slitting-mill1850
smoothing-mill1850
gem-peg1853
jewel setter1875
needle file1875
peg1879
stake1884
sharp1903
1660 Surv. Armoury Tower of London in Archaeologia (1794) 11 101 Armorers Tooles..Tramping Stakes. Round stake. Welting stakes.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 20 The Stake is a small Anvil which either stands upon a broad Iron foot..on the work-bench..or else it hath a strong Iron spike at bottom, which..is let into..the work-bench.
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 386 The smaller anvils, which are called stakes,..are of progressively smaller sizes.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 214 Polishing Stake, a square polished surface of steel on which redstuff and other polishing material is mixed. It is usually enclosed in a box.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 228 Riveting Stake, a cube of steel..pierced with a series of different sized holes for the reception of arbors... A jointed stake..hinged at one end..is handy in some cases.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 246 A stake with a beak to it.., a form much used by jewellers.
b. Leather Manufacturing. (See quot. 1897.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for smoothing
sleeker1611
smoothing-iron1627
stretcher-iron1839
stretching-iron1839
slicker1852
stake1853
staking-iron1889
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 63 The workman holding the extremities of the skin with both hands, pulls it in all directions..against the smoothing ‘stake’.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xx. 274 The hand stake..was an upright wooden stake, some two feet in length and eight inches in width into the tapering top of which was fixed a broad steel blade. The skin was drawn across this blade.
c. Each of the stanchions or posts which fit into sockets or staples on a trolley, wagon or boat to prevent the load from slipping off. Also elliptical for stake-body truck (sense Compounds 2 below). North American colloquial.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > other types > parts of
pickstaff?1523
pikestowera1642
stake1875
stake-iron1875
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > with specific type of body
platform truck1868
stake-body truck1907
stake-truck1907
panel truck1910
tray top1934
cab-forward1936
cab-over1943
panel van1948
tipper1950
straight job1955
stake1968
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2300/2 Stake,..an upright bar held by staples on the edge of the bed of a platform car, to hold on the load of lumber.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 50/3 (advt.) Immediate delivery on new pick-ups, panels, vans and stakes.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 50/3 (advt.) Ford 2½ ton stake with covered compartment for carrying personnel.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. f13/7 (advt.) 1978 Chevy truck sale. Pickups. Elcaminos. Stakes. Stepvans.
d. Basket-making. Each of the longest foundation-rods of a basket or the like. (Webster, 1911.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > foundation or skeleton > foundation rod > specific
spoke1897
league1903
stake1903
by-stake1912
scallom1912
1903 T. Okey in R. M. Jacot Useful Cane Work i. p. ix When a single continuous cane is used as a combined bottom stick and stake it is termed a ‘League’.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 482/2 When the ‘bottom-stick’ and ‘stake’ are formed of one and the same continuous rod, it is termed a ‘league’.
1959 D. Wright Baskets & Basketry vi. 136 Stakes, rods driven in with the bottom sticks to form the foundation of the sides of a basket.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts x. 146 Most baskets were made by first weaving a base, although solid wooden bases drilled to take the uprights, or stakes, were occasionally used.
6. An administrative division of the Mormon Church, comprising a number of wards (ward n.2 19b). Also Stake (in or of) Zion. [? Suggested by Isaiah liv. 2, 3.]
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > see of > Mormon
stake1843
1833 J. Smith in W. A. Linn Story of Mormons (1902) 120 It is expedient in me that this Stake that I have set for the strength of Zion be made strong.
1839 J. Smith in W. A. Linn Story of Mormons (1902) 120 I have other places which I will appoint unto them, and they shall be called Stakes for the curtains, or the strength of Zion.]
1843 H. Caswall Prophet of 19th Cent. 90 Other ‘churches’ established by ‘revelations’ given to Smith, are called ‘Stakes of Zion’, or simply ‘Stakes’.
1857 Southern Illinoisian (Shawneetown) 1 May 1/3 Throughout the States and Territories, at various and convenient locations, the Mormons have what are termed ‘stakes in Zion’, and each stake is governed by a Presidency.
1870 J. H. Beadle Life in Utah 124 All the wealthy members were to follow him to western Pennsylvania, and establish a new ‘stake’ for the others to gather to!
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1578 Every city, or ‘stake’, including a chief town and surrounding towns.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 828 The [Mormon] church is made up of 23 stakes, each having a president.
1905 Out West Sept. 246 The Stakes of Zion, I will explain, are those gathering places of the Saints that are outside of Zion proper—Jackson county, Missouri, where the holy city it is believed will yet be built.
1961 Guardian 23 Jan. 2/3 The share of the Manchester ‘stake’ (stake is roughly the Mormon for diocese) is £2 million.
1976 Times 18 June (Spec. Rep. Mormons) p. iii/7 A stake is administered by local lay members.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
stake-beetle n. beetle n.1 1.
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1638–40 Min. Archdeaconry of Essex (MS.) 140 b He tooke two stakes and knockt them in with a stake beetle.
stake-fence n.
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1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. vii. 190 A stake-fence ought to be proof against both pigs and cattle.
1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 46 Beside the stake-fence Lion stopped.
stake-hedge n.
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 289 Stake-hedge, one made of thorns or wood,..wattled or ethered from three to four feet high.
stake-hole n.
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1977 Antiquaries Jrnl. 57 261Stakehole’ is used here to mean the void made by the decay of timber post driven into the ground; ‘posthole’ means a larger hole excavated in order to insert a post.
stake-pole n.
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1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 24 These baskets are secured to stake-poles or sticks, laid out in parallel lines.
stake-rest n.
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1891 Cent. Dict. Stake-rest, on a railway platform car, a device for supporting a stake when turned down horizontally.
b. (In sense 6.)
stake centre n. and adj.
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1976 Times 18 June (Spec. Rep. Mormons) p. iii/7 Twenty stakes are now functioning, most of them headquartered in new stake centre church buildings.
stake house n.
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1930 L. Foster Larry 131 Then we all paraded down to the Stake House (Mormon Districts are called ‘Stakes’), where there was a pioneer's meeting.
stake president n.
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1947 G. S. Perry Cities of Amer. iii. 39 Each stake president will parcel out the acreages he has agreed to accept among his bishops, and each bishop will divide his commitment among the Saints in his ward.
C2.
stake-boat n. a boat moored or otherwise fixed to serve as a starting-point or mark for racing boats; also, a fixed boat to which other boats may be moored.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > boat to which others may be moored
stake-boat1839
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > racing boat > vessel serving as mark in race
stake-boat1839
turn-boat1896
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > course > mark on course
flag-boat1815
ryepeck1834
stake-boat1839
weather-mark1894
turn-boat1896
turn-mark1896
1839 Spirit of Times 13 July 217/2 After a smart pull for it, she [sc. a boat] overhauled them one by one, passing the Washington about half way to the stake-boat.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Apr. 8 The Cambridge crew..paddled away..to their stake-boat on the Middlesex side of the river.
1902 Federal Reports CXIII. 926 The tug left the tow in order to engage in other work, picking up light boats, and towing them down to a stake boat off Liberty Island.
1943 A. Gibbs U-Boat Prisoner 121 We went over to Jersey and took a motorboat to what he called a stake boat, where we found the barge.
stake-body n. U.S. a body for a lorry, etc., which has an open, flat platform fitted with removable stakes (sense 5c) along the sides in order to retain the load; also attributive in stake-body truck, a lorry fitted with such a body.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > with specific type of body
platform truck1868
stake-body truck1907
stake-truck1907
panel truck1910
tray top1934
cab-forward1936
cab-over1943
panel van1948
tipper1950
straight job1955
stake1968
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > part on which goods are carried > type of
stake-body1907
1907 Cycle & Auto. Trade Jrnl. 1 Feb. 390 (caption) Studebaker 3½ ton paying load truck with stake body.
1913 Hub July 123 (caption) Universal Chain Drive Stake Body Truck.
1976 Washington Post 19 Apr. d3/5 (advt.) Discount center for stake bodies, step vans, medium duty trucks, [etc.].
1978 J. Gores Gone, no Forwarding (1979) 4 He..opened the door of his stake-body truck.
stake-driver n. U.S. the bittern, Botaurus mugitans.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Botaurus (bittern) > miscellaneous types of
American bitternc1330
bitternc1330
shitepoke1775
dunkadooa1813
matuku1847
stake-driver1872
thunder-pumper1877
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 269 Botaurus. Bittern... Stake-driver.
1889 H. Saunders Man. Brit. Birds 374 The note of the male..is..like the noise made by driving a stake in boggy soil, whence its common name of ‘Stake-’ or ‘Post-driver’.
stake-fellow n. a fellow-sufferer at the stake.
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1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1148/1 [He] bad his bedfellow and sworne stakefellow..maister Saunders farewell.
stake-hang n. dialect, (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 141 A knaw'd all about tha stake-hangs Tha zalmon vor ta catch.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 72 Stake-hang,..a kind of circular hedge made of stakes, forced into the sea-shore..for the purpose of catching salmon, and other fish.
stake-head n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stake-head, in rope-making, a stake with wooden pins in the upper side to keep the strands apart.
stake-iron n. (a) a nail-maker's stake (sense 5a); (b) = sense 5c.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > nail-making equipment
nail-tool1338
hag-iron1825
hardy1829
bore1831
stake-iron1832
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > other types > parts of
pickstaff?1523
pikestowera1642
stake1875
stake-iron1875
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. i. 14 He puts this [rod of red-hot iron] into a hole in a small stake-iron immediately under a hammer connected with a treadle.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stake-iron Bender, a machine for bending stake-irons for the bolsters of wagons.
stake nail n. Obsolete (see quot. 1688).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making > saddler's equipment
stake nail1688
welt1871
stob1872
chamfering-toola1877
pricking iron1904
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 300/1 Stake Nails, or Sadlers Tacks.
stake-net n. a fishing net usually set between tide-marks or in shallow water, secured in a vertical position by means of stakes.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > fixed net
stall net1246
trink1311
set net1481
trinkerc1485
pitch1523
half-net1538
trink-net1584
stop-net1634
toot-net1805
yair-net1805
stob-net1806
seta1808
stake-net1836
barrier-net1884
boom net1925
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 23 It is not unusual to have stake nets placed in the reverse position, with the courts open to the ebb-tide.
1936 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Feb. 7/1 A number of Rock Hall fishermen walked from their homes over the ice in the Chesapeake Bay to their stake nets near Tolchester Beach the past week, cut out their nets, and landed three hundred pounds of rock fish.
1973 W. Elmer Terminol. Fishing ii. 73 The stake net is a fixed net now only found on the south-west coast of Scotland.
stake-pocket n. a socket for a stake of a platform car ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
stake-presidency n. the presidency of a Mormon stake (see sense 6).
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > see of > Mormon > presidency of
stake-presidency1909
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Stake-presidency.
stake-stubber n. Obsolete one who removes (boundary) stakes.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > forming or marking boundary > with stakes > one who removes stakes
stake-stubber1555
1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.iii But yf stake stoobbers wyl not let staks stand Blame not the stake.
stake-stuck adj. Obsolete that stands like a stake.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [adjective]
upstandingc1000
struttinga1643
stationary1656
standing1672
stake-stuck1751
1751 C. Smart Pretty Bar-keeper of Mitre vii, in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown 151 Ev'n stake-stuck Clarians strove to stoop.
stake-truck n. = stake-body truck above.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > with specific type of body
platform truck1868
stake-body truck1907
stake-truck1907
panel truck1910
tray top1934
cab-forward1936
cab-over1943
panel van1948
tipper1950
straight job1955
stake1968
1907 Cycle & Auto. Trade Jrnl. 1 Jan. 346a (caption) Five-ton Imperial Stake Truck.
1975 C. Weston Susannah Screaming xxvi. 137 An old stake truck passed him, the back jammed with long-haired college-age kids.
stake willow n. Obsolete a kind of willow used for the making of stakes.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > types of
osierc1175
sallowc1400
stake willow1577
diamond willow1884
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 103v The other kinde [of willow]..seruing for stayes to Uines..or stakes of Hedges, and is called stake Wyllowe [L. quæ perticalis dicitur].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

staken.2

Brit. /steɪk/, U.S. /steɪk/
Etymology: Of uncertain etymology. Perhaps < stake v.3 On the alternative supposition that the noun is the source of the verb, the former may be the same word as stake n.1 The peculiar use might have been developed from the phrase on the stake, which may originally have referred to a custom of placing on a ‘stake’ or post the object (an article of clothing or the like) hazarded on the event of a game or contest. There is, however, no evidence of the existence of such a custom; and in our quots. the first example of the phrase is dated 1592, while the use of the noun to denote the money risked on a game of dice is more than half a century older.
1.
a. That which is placed at hazard; esp. a sum of money or other valuable commodity deposited or guaranteed, to be taken by the winner of a game, race, contest, etc.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > derived from gaming or betting
stake1540
play money1700
winnings1716
win1891
pay-off1905
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > stake
wager1303
wedc1330
wed-feec1475
stake1540
lay1584
lake1636
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > stake
wedc1330
set1537
setting1540
stake1540
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. iii. sig. Tj All the stakes and settynges that be sette within the dyce borde, whiche lye on lyttell heapes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 250 A Foole, That seest a Game play'd home, the rich Stake drawne, And tak'st it all for ieast. View more context for this quotation
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 41 He that winnes the game, gets not only the maine Stake, but all the Bets by follow the fortune of his hand.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 88 Let who will be the gamesters, he is sure to sweep the stakes.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiii. 44 Full well at tables can he play, And sweep at bowls the stake away.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ii. 41 Our landlord here shall hold stakes.
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 9 Even at low stakes one may lose or gain enough to give interest to the game.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Cup i. iii. 79 [I] am no such gamester As, having won the stake, would dare the chance Of double or losing all.
b. figurative and in figurative context.
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 403 b Upon what grew this inequabilitie and parcialitie of dispensation [of pardons], if there were no stakes layed doune for the game?
1601 Ld. Mountjoy in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 145 For now Jacta est alea between England and Spaine and we that doe play the game have least interest in the stake.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 15 The Sword, Which for no less a Stake than Life, you Draw.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 863 Can'st thou..Lay such a stake upon the losing side, Merely to gratify so blind a guide? View more context for this quotation
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 136 The royalists in England, who played so deep a stake on the king's account.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 121 The prize was small..and the stake large, but they staked and lost it.
c. figurative. to have a stake in (an event, a concern, etc.): to have something to gain or lose by the turn of events, to have an interest in; esp. in to have a stake in the country (said of those who hold landed property). Hence spec., a shareholding (in a company).
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society > law > legal concepts > appertain to as right or duty [verb (transitive)] > have an interest in
to have a stake in1791
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > held
holding1573
interest1674
equity1889
net worth1930
to have a stake in1955
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 480 [A. Dick:] With my most affectionate wishes for Dr. Johnson's recovery, in which his friends, his country, and all mankind have so deep a stake.
1807 Windham Speech House of Commons 22 July in Hansard IX. 897 Those entrusted with arms..should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi Introd. 8 And will probably always have the largest commercial stake in the African continent.
1911 H. Brown Hist. Scot. I. iv. viii. 281 Scotland came to have a stake in this struggle.
1955 Times 4 Aug. 12/1 Pilkington Brothers, famous the world over for plate and other kinds of glass, is proposing to increase its stake in another hardly less famous glass business.
1969 Listener 31 July 137/2 If the local paper has a stake in a local commercial station, this would tend to perpetuate the monopoly in local news and comment which has existed for too long in many provincial cities.
1981 Times 6 May 24/7 (heading) Trafalgar House buys 14.9 pc stake in French Kier.
d. Phrases. to part stakes: see part v. 11c. Similarly †to share stakes, to divide stakes. to draw stakes, to withdraw what is staked as a wager, etc.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > withdraw wager
to draw stakes1554
1554 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 246 Communicate your necessities to me, & to others of his people, and God will make vs to deuide stakes.
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. D4v But belike the god himselfe ment to share stakes.
1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 186 But after a tedious dispute they shall leave off and draw stakes.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 300 The King of Persia farms out the Mint to private Persons, who gain most by it, and share stakes with the money-changers.
1708 Brit. Apollo 15–20 Oct. We wou'd..advise the Wagerers to draw Stakes.
1758 O. Goldsmith tr. J. Marteilhe Mem. Protestant I. 30 After two or three Conferences, he drew Stakes and declined the Dispute.
1783 Hampshire Chron. 8 Sept. 3/2 When after four days play it [sc. the cricket match] was left undecided, through the unfavourableness of the weather, the gentlemen mutually agreeing to draw their stakes.
1818 Nottingham Rev. 18 Sept. The London players..represented to the Nottingham Club, that £25 was a serious sum to them, and they should feel themselves greatly obliged if the Club would draw the stakes and agree to play for nothing.
1850 Bell’s Life in London 3 Mar. 2/3 [In 1788] Stump, the Lancashire pedestrian..[ran] four miles over Knutsford Course..in 20 min 13 sec. but one of the umpires omitting to stop his watch the stakes were drawn.
2. In certain phrases: The condition of being staked. literal and figurative.In some of the early quots. the noun in these phrases is taken (either by misapprehension or conscious wordplay) as stake n.1 1b.
a. to be, lie at or on the stake, to put, lay, lay down or set (a thing) at stake or at the stake.
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1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 5 So they vie and reuy till some tenne shillings bee on the stake.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 117 Haue you not set mine Honor at the stake, And baited it with all th' vnmuzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 14 I durst my Lord, to wager she is honest, Lay downe my soule at stake . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 150 My Honor's at the stake . View more context for this quotation
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII (1876) (modernized text) 34 He..saw plainly that his kingdom must again be put to the stake, and that he must fight for it.
a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) III. 9 All that is deere unto us and our posteritie is now at the last fatall stacke.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 56 Are not our Liberties, our Lives, The Lawes, Religion, and our Wives Enough at once to lye at stake?
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 My Brinded Heifar to the Stake I lay;..Now back your singing with an equal Stake.
b. figurative. (To be) at stake, to have at stake.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > at risk
at stake1609
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [adverb] > stake
at stake1609
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [adverb] > at stake
at stake1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 220 I see my reputation is at stake, My fame is shrowdly gor'd. View more context for this quotation
1722 R. Steele Conscious Lovers ii. i I have more than Life at stake on your Fidelity.
1872 W. H. Dixon W. Penn (rev. ed.) x. 85 His private ease was nothing, while so great a principle was at stake.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 227 He may be fairly appealed to, when the honour of his master is at stake.
3.
a. plural in Horse Racing, Coursing, etc., the sums of money staked or subscribed by the owners who enter horses or dogs for a contest, the whole to be received as the prize by the owner of the winner or divided among the owners of the animals ‘placed’, as declared in the conditions of the contest. Hence in singular (cf. sweepstake n.) a race for money thus staked or subscribed. Also in plural with defining words as the designation of particular races or classes of races in which the sum of money staked is the prize as distinguished from a Plate (see plate n. 4), Cup, or the like. produce stakes: (a) in Horse Racing, a race in which the runners must be the offspring of horses named and described at the time of entry; a produce race; (b) in Coursing, a race for puppies, i.e. for dogs of from one to two years of age; also called puppy stakes. sapling stakes: in Coursing, a race for saplings, i.e. dogs of less than one year old (see sapling n. Compounds 1). subscription stakes: in Horse Racing, a race for which subscribers of a fixed amount annually have the right to enter one or more horses.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > stake > in horse or dog racing
stake1696
added money1831
stoater1860
place money1865
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
bell-course1607
Palio1673
stake1696
paddock course1705
handicap1751
by-match1759
pony race1765
give and take plate1769
sweepstake1773
steeplechase1793
mile-heat1802
steeple race1809
welter1820
trotting-race1822
scurry1824
walkover1829
steeple hunt1831
set-to1840
sky race1840
flat race1848
trot1856
grind1857
feeler1858
nursery1860
waiting race1868
horse-trot1882
selling plate1888
flying milea1893
chase1894
flying handicap1894
prep1894
selling race1898
point-to-point1902
seller1922
shoo-in1928
daily double1930
bumper1946
selling chase1965
tiercé1981
1696 London Gaz. No. 3175/4 Strangers for the 30 l. Plate are to put in 4 l. and for the 20 l. Plate, 2 l. The Stakes are to go to the 2d Horse.
1730 J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches 86 On..the following Day was a Purse of 20 l. Sterling,..en. 2 Guineas, Stakes 10 Guineas.
1734 J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches 1 The following five Year Olds started for a Purse of 600 Guineas, call'd the Wallasey Stakes.
1778 in J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes ii. 40 Tuesday, September 22.—The St. Leger Stakes of 25 gs. each, for three-year olds.
18.. Turf Expositor in Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports (1840) §1268. 364 Cocktails are horses which appear as racers, but are understood not to be thorough~bred... They run for hunters' stakes, and also for what are called half-bred stakes.
1837 ‘Nimrod’ Chace, Turf, & Road iii. 283 There are upwards of a hundred horses besides himself named for the stake [i.e. the Derby].
1837 ‘Nimrod’ Chace, Turf, & Road iii. 276 The system lately adopted of produce-stakes for half-bred horses.
1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1288. 369 By the winning of stakes alone, if honesty did but conduct the race, much money might be won, so as to remunerate..the vast sums which are expended in breeding, rearing, and training the best blood.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. iii. viii. 205/2 Puppy Stakes... In all produce stakes, the description of the puppy to contain its name, age, and pedigree [etc.].
1895 Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 7/2 The cost [of horse-racing] is positively frightful in these days of heavy subscription stakes.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 201/2 [article Coursing] It was in the year 1836 that the proprietor of the Waterloo Hotel in Liverpool improvised an eight-dog stake, which he styled the Waterloo Cup.
b. colloquial. Used figuratively with defining words to denote a particular business or way of life in which success is attained through competition.
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1885 Sat. Rev. 7 Feb. 181/2 The hothouse kind of life..enabled this nervous, delicate, and curiously constituted competitor to win the Novel Stakes time after time.
c1885 A. W. Pinero Magistrate (1892) i. 24 You nominated yourself for the Matrimonial Stakes. Mr. Farringdon's The Widow, by Bereavement, out of Mourning, ten pounds extra.
1901 G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville ii. i. 309 Yet so threadbare as to accept these consolation stakes.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. v. 145 He was not going to enter for the slander stakes.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iii. 34 Both the men looked as if they might be on the Jo Roncing [i.e. poncing] stakes.
1969 Listener 3 Apr. 470/1 No music is more recuperative than Mozart's and, in the therapy stakes, none runs it as close as Webern's.
1977 Spare Rib May 37/1 Energy and money were spent outdoing other girls in the beauty stakes.
4. slang. (See quot. 1819.) Also North American, a grub-stake; a sum of money earned or saved; a store of provisions or sum of money necessary for survival during a certain period.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > for other purposes
alms purse1530
privy purse1565
sinking fund1717
stakea1744
pension fund1757
spare-chest1769
road fund1784
revolving fund1793
community chest1796
provident fund1817
sustentation fund1837
wages-fund1848
slush fund1874
treasury chest fund1877
fall money1883
jackpot1884
provision1895
war chest1901
juice1935
fighting fund1940
structural fund1967
appeal fund1976
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder
reifOE
fang1016
fengc1175
purchasec1325
predec1330
robberyc1330
robbingsc1330
spoila1340
spoila1382
chevisance1393
waitha1400
fee14..
pilferc1400
pelfa1425
spreathc1425
butinc1450
emprisec1450
gain1473
despoil1474
pelfry?a1475
pilfery1489
spulyie1507
cheat1566
bootinga1572
booty1574
escheat1587
boot1598
exuvial1632
bootyn1635
polling1675
expilation1715
prog1727
swag1794
filch1798
spreaghery1814
stake1819
a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line in Writings (1901) 178 [We] recommended to the men to manage this, their last stake, to best advantage.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) A booty acquired by robbery, or a sum of money won at play, is called a stake, and if considerable, a prime stake, a heavy stake; a person alluding to any thing difficult to be procured..would say, I consider it a stake to get it at all.
1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 204 The horse is his last resource... When lost, the quondam owner is said to be flat broke or flat footed, and must beg, borrow, or steal, for a stake.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 510 It is a splendid country to travel through; a miserable poor one to stop in to make a ‘stake’.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 114 He had made a pretty good stake, and wanted to go east for the winter.
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps i. i. 20 It is usually immaterial to him what happens to society as such so long as he [sc. a thief] can make a ‘stake’.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xi. 117 A hobo may go to town with a stake and blow it in during two or three nights of slapping it up.
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 53 I'll make my stake and get my new gamblin' house open before you boys leave.
1966 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Aug. 5/1 They [sc. loggers] seldom worked more than a few months in one place, just long enough to gather a stake, which they spent in a few days in town.
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) vii. 279 I worked in that oil town in the Rift..and when I had a little stake I hitched back to Istiqlal.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
stake-money n.
ΚΠ
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 123 He fought Dutch Sam for his own stake money.
stake-race n.
ΚΠ
1896 H. M. Blossom Checkers ii. 20 Y' see, take a big stake-race like this, where every horse is a ‘cracker-jack’,..and they've all got a chance.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 1/5 Deep in the bush you can have just about all the comforts of home as the great uranium stake race enters its final two days.
C2.
stake-man n. U.S. slang a hobo, a tramp.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps ii. v. 310 He learns to travel merely for travel's sake, and develops into a ‘stake-man’, who only works long enough to get a ‘stake’ and then go off on a trip again.
1901 J. London Let. 6 Dec. (1966) 126 Wyckoff only knows the workingman, the stake-man, and the bindle-stiff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stakev.1

Brit. /steɪk/, U.S. /steɪk/
Etymology: < stake n.1Middle Dutch (modern Dutch dialect, West Flemish), German staken.
1.
a. transitive. To mark (land) with stakes. North American, to claim (land) by marking it with stakes; also absol.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > fix boundary of > with stakes
stakec1330
stob1550
dool1656
stoop1663
post1712
to peg out1852
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > prove right to possession > claim right to possession
assert1652
stake1908
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1852 Þey..mesured lond, & dide hit stake þat ilkon dide his owen knowe.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 309 [They] þat þorgh þe reame suld go, þe boundes forto stake.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxii. f. 41 [Meadows] ought to be well staked bytwene euery mannes dole.
1715 Maryland Laws (1723) vi. 20 The Surveyor..shall have..Fees and Rewards of laying out and staking the Towns and Lots.
1716 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 139 Each man's several quantities being set out and staked.
1908 M. A. Grainger Woodsmen of West 78 Now Billy Hewlitt was a ‘timber-cruiser’—a man who sought for forest timber, to stake it.
1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) 12 In a short time Bonanza was staked from end to end.
1945 Clarke County Democrat (Grove Hill, Alabama) 24 May 1/6 The California Oil Company..has staked a location for the drilling of a test well.
1959 M. Shand Summit & Beyond vii. 113 There was a report of a [gold] strike up White River. The men were talking of going to ‘stake’.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 1/7 It is land that was staked before in the madness of 1954, when it became known that one of the world's greatest concentrations of uranium ores had been uncovered.
b. with adverbs off, out; esp. to mark out (land, a building site, etc.) with stakes or pegs. Also figurative.
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1445 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 404 The enlarging of garit hostell, as hit is now staked out.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 232 We went to measure out the grounds: and so we cast lots where euery man should lie, which we staked out.
1710 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 49 Thomas..has survey'd and stak'd out the same.
1885 Manch. Examiner 6 May 4/7 It will only remain to stake off the boundary through the intermediate districts.
c. to stake (out, off) a claim, to make or register a claim (to land) by marking it with stakes; frequently figurative. Originally U.S.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (intransitive)] > claim right to possession
to stake (out, off) a claim1851
1851 State Jrnl. (San Jose, Calif.) 15 Mar. 2/1 It was estimated that ten thousand people were on the ground staking off ‘claims’.
1876 R. Bridges Growth of Love viii, in Poet. Wks. (1912) 191 And against her shames Imagination stakes out heavenly claims.
1904 J. London Daughter of Snows xiii. 140 You staked that claim before he was dry behind the ears.
1928 H. Crane Let. 17 Apr. (1965) 324 Skepticism may stop there.., but I am not exactly satisfied by that... I still stake some claims on the pertinence of the intuitions.
1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xiv. 199 Up till now, he had regarded Lord Emsworth as the most promising claim that any prospector for ore could hope to stake out.
1949 Nat. Hist. Apr. 189/3 Sometimes when the bee hunter finds a nest that has not yet reached its peak of honey production, he will ‘stake his claim’ by marking the tree so that other hunters will know of his prior discovery.
2.
a. To protect, support, or obstruct with stakes.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > with a post or stake
percha1398
stakea1500
stanchion1528
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > shut up (a place) > with a barrier, fence, etc.
hedgea1425
stakea1500
to rail offc1500
stake1598
chain1603
rope1621
fence1767
hurdle1770–4
barrier1776
traverse1828
ward1842
stone1889
a1500 ( Bale's Chron. in R. Flenley Six Town Chron. (1911) 130 And they hadde mervelously staked all þe feeld aboute þeym that no power of horsmen shuld com and override theym.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 732/1 I stake a hedge, je mets des espieux en vne haye.
1576 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 382 The water corse going to the howse of offyce..shalbe staked and stopped uppe.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 63 Order was giuen that the camp should be entrenched and staked.
1602 Ld. Mountjoy in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 213 Long traverses..staked on both sides with pallisades watled.
b. with adverbs. To close up or in, to keep out, to shut off with a barrier of stakes.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > shut up (a place) > with a barrier, fence, etc.
hedgea1425
stakea1500
to rail offc1500
stake1598
chain1603
rope1621
fence1767
hurdle1770–4
barrier1776
traverse1828
ward1842
stone1889
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii. 73 I shall praise thee all the while, So be, thou stake not vp the common stile; So be thou hedge in nought, but what's thine owne.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 19 The Duke of Glocester..Then caus'd his Ships the riuer vp to Stake, That none with Victuall should the Towne relieue.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 62 No marvell any thing if letters must be turn'd into palisadoes to stake out all requisite sense from entring to their due enlargement.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. iii. 33 On the bank of loose stones above the mud and stakes that staked the tide out.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) 71 This world of natural men is staked off from the Spiritual World by barriers which have never yet been crossed from within.
c. To put stakes or a stake to (a plant).
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > stake
stick1636
stake1664
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 63 in Sylva Stake and bind up your weakest Plants and Flowers against the Windes.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 90 They staked each Tree with four Poles, of about ten Foot long.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 255 Beans answer excellently, to stake the tares intended for seed.
1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 475 All open standards should be staked as soon as planted.
3. To secure with or as with a stake.
a. To bind or tie up (an animal) to a stake; to bind (a person) to the stake for execution. Also with out.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether
renewc1450
tether1483
stake1544
picket1729
headline1800
flit1816
hang1835
to rack up1843
bail1846
to hang up1858
bush1871
manger1905
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > to the stake
stake1839
1544 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 79 His seruauntes dyd tedre and stayk thar horses vpon vj hawyns of Stokeleys.
1772 T. Simpson Compl. Vermin-killer 22 The only method that can be taken is..by staking a chicken by the leg.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iv. 87 He ordered two soldiers to catch and stake me... This is a very severe punishment; four posts are driven into the ground, and the man is extended by his arms and legs horizontally, and there left to stretch for several hours.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters III. i. 6 Our horses were unsaddled and staked on the open plain.
1895 Outing 26 403/1 We rode up as far toward the top of the ridge as we dared go and then staked out the ponies.
figurative.1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 156/1 The poet is staked and faggoted by his surrounding brethren.
b. To fasten (a thing) down, on with a stake or with stakes.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with stake
stake1621
speek1644
prick1647
pale1703
skewer1781
picket1847
skiver1888
1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention 114 These Nets being thus stakt downe with strong stakes.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 44 In fixing the wheels and pullies upon a shaft, which is mostly done by driving wedges in the bush of the wheel or pulley, called staking them on.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus viii. 80 Strong fishing-nets, carefully staked down.
c. figurative. To fasten securely as by a stake. Chiefly with down. Obsolete.
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V2v Nere tell me of this or that he sayes I spake or did, except he particularize and stake downe the verie words.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 16 I haue a soule of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot stirre. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 12 Men..that seem to be staked down and nailed fast to the Earth.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. vii. 24/2 I know not whether the Terrors of my dreadful Voyage hither might not be ordered by the Divine Providence, to Stake me in this Land.
a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 14 His Mind was so airy and volatile, he could not have kept his Chamber, if he must needs be there staked down purely to the Drudgery of the Law.
4.
a. To impale (a person) on a stake. Also with up. Also, to transfix and fasten down (a person) with a stake.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > impale or picket > on a stake
stake1577
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > pierce > impale or transfix
fallOE
through-smitec1300
staira1400
through-beara1400
stake1577
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 203/2 (margin) in Chron. I The procurers of the murder were staked.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. i That with the sharpnes of my edged sting, I might haue stakte them both vnto the earth.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 24 Others [Nero] staked through, rosined and waxened over their bodies, and so set them lighted up, as torches.
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia vii. 26 Seven sons she had, all stak'd, rack'd and at last Thrust through, were into a deep pit cast.
1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius i. 8 Stake me, just Gods, with Thunder to the Earth.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 99 His body being staked up, his head cut off, and a hogs head set in the room.
1786 J. Wolcot Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians i, in Wks. (1812) I. 128 Stak'd through the body like a paltry Thief.
b. passive. Of a horse, etc.: To be injured by impalement on a hedge or fence stake. Also reflexive; hence transitive, to cause a horse to stake himself.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > of horse: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > be injured
spaula1425
stake1687
snag1807
to cap the hock1886
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > of horse: have disorder [verb (reflexive)] > stub or stake
stub1686
stake1687
1687 London Gaz. No. 2281/4 A bright bay Gelding.., a..Scar on the far side near the Flank, (where he had been stak'd).
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 249 If any of these Dogs should happen to stake themselves, by brushing through Hedges.
1884 Law Times 78 100/1 The animals..attempted to jump a fence. The foal was staked and had to be killed.
5. To drive in (a pile, etc.) Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > drive or strike in > as a stake, pile, peg, or wedge
pile1523
coin1580
stake1612
pega1614
1612 D. Carleton Let. 13 Apr. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 572 Hee hathe pulled up the piles, that ye Ferraresi had staked in.
6. Leather Manufacturing. (See quot. 1853.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > stretch or smooth hides or leather
beam1605
stake1686
frizz1697
strike1764
seta1884
snuff1897
1686 London Gaz. No. 2124/4 Stolen.., about 350 of the best Kids, some ready pared, and some in the Crust not staked.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 63 The tawed skins, when dry, are ‘staked’, that is stretched, scraped, and smoothed by friction against the blunt edge of a semi-circular knife.
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7. ‘To push with a stake or a pole, as a railroad car’ (Webster, 1911). ? U.S.
8. colloquial (originally U.S.).
a. Usually with adverb out. To maintain surveillance of (a place, etc.) in order to detect criminal activity or apprehend a suspect. Cf. stake-out n.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] > specifically a place
stake1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §499/4 Stake out,..to surround a criminal retreat to spy upon or prevent escape.
1943 R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) xxix. 157 They had the house staked.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File 221 When..the French police staked out the courier routes, they found..50,000 dollars of forged signed travellers' cheques.
1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink xiii. 91 The house was ‘staked out.’.. A man called Whipper Slade emerged. ‘Coo, he's a real deadleg,’ said a detective who recognised him.
1974 Black World June 28/1 Places that are so staked out with doormen and electronic gadgets that only god can enter the lobby.
1981 Daily Tel. 6 July 2/2 Police were tipped off that trouble might occur with skinheads at nearby Greenford. They staked out a likely disco there.
b. to be staked out: to be set, or to set oneself, to maintain surveillance of a place.
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society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > investigate crime [verb (intransitive)] > be under surveillance
to be staked out1951
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > maintain surveillance [verb (intransitive)]
to be staked out1951
society > communication > indication > marking > marking out > [adjective] > marked with stakes
to be staked out1951
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch [verb (intransitive)] > be under surveillance
scouta1625
to be staked out1951
1951 ‘M. Spillane’ Big Kill vi. 122 He's been a cop a long time. He's been staked out often enough to spot it when he's being watched himself.
1974 J. A. Michener Centennial iv. 162 The Pawnee reacted as had been expected, with a countercharge of their own, and their leaders had covered only a short distance when they spotted Lame Beaver staked out, his rifle at the ready.
1979 H. Kissinger White House Years xix. 756 David Bruce..came to the Embassy through the front door where the press was staked out.
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stakev.2

Etymology: ? Compare (Middle) Dutch staken to fix, place, probably related to Old Frisian stak stiff, firm.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To place.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)]
doeOE
layc950
seta1000
puta1225
dight1297
pilt?a1300
stow1362
stick1372
bestowc1374
affichea1382
posec1385
couchc1386
dressa1387
assize1393
yarkc1400
sita1425
place1442
colloque1490
siegea1500
stake1513
win1515
plat1529
collocate1548
campc1550
posit1645
posture1645
constitute1652
impose1681
sist1852
shove1902
spot1937
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. iii. 72 And glaidy eik haue I nocht stakyt the Intill a party of the hevin alssua? [L. scis ut te..cæli libens in parte locarim].
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stakev.3

Brit. /steɪk/, U.S. /steɪk/
Etymology: Of uncertain origin.The verb appears in our quots. a little earlier than the related stake n.2, and may be its source. On this view it may be < Middle Dutch staken to fix, place (see stake v.2). On the other hand, it is possible that the verb may be < stake n.2
1. intransitive. To wager, hazard money, on the event of a game or contest. Now apprehended as absolute use of sense 3.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)]
laya1300
to lay wedc1330
stake1530
wager1604
bet1609
gamble1757
sport1760
invest1852
punt1887
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > play games of chance [verb (intransitive)] > stake
stake1530
seta1553
chip1857
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 732/1 I stake in a play, je boute. I wyll nat play, except every mans take.
1591 [see sense 3].
1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends ii. ii Vrs. What shall we play for? Mer. Two pinnes a game. Vrs. Stake then.
1709 Yorkshire-racers 10 And Tandem stakes both for himself and friend.
1896 Spectator 10 Oct. 480/1 As a rule a woman who plays cards for money feels like the cashier who is staking out of his master's till.
2. transitive. to stake down: to deposit (a sum of money) as a wager or stake on the result of a game or contest. Also absol.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > bet (money, etc.)
laya1300
wed1362
to lay downc1430
setc1460
jeopardc1470
wage1484
holda1500
pary?a1505
to stake down1565
stake1591
gagec1598
bet?a1600
go1607
wagera1616
abet1617
impone1702
sport1706
stand1795
gamble1813
parlay1828
ante1846
to put on1890
plunge1919
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > stake something in game
play?a1425
hazard1529
stoopc1555
to stake down1565
prizea1592
stake1591
gamble1813
buck1851
chip1857
to chip in1892
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Contendere Pignore aliquo contendere, to gage or stake downe somwhat and pay for it.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 214 Gra. Wele play..for a thousand ducats. Ner. What and stake downe ? View more context for this quotation
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 198 So Wagers made by lookers on vpon other mens games are disallowed, which is the cause that Stipulations are made, putting the pawne or money downe, which is called, to stake downe.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 22 And if you doubt it to be true, I'l stake my self down against you.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ii. 41 Our landlord here shall hold stakes, and I will stake down gold till I send thee linen.
3. To put at hazard (a sum of money, an article of value, etc.) upon the cast of dice, the result of a competition or game, the event of a contingency, etc.; to wager.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > bet (money, etc.)
laya1300
wed1362
to lay downc1430
setc1460
jeopardc1470
wage1484
holda1500
pary?a1505
to stake down1565
stake1591
gagec1598
bet?a1600
go1607
wagera1616
abet1617
impone1702
sport1706
stand1795
gamble1813
parlay1828
ante1846
to put on1890
plunge1919
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > stake something in game
play?a1425
hazard1529
stoopc1555
to stake down1565
prizea1592
stake1591
gamble1813
buck1851
chip1857
to chip in1892
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 25 T. Let vs keepe the lawes of the court. G. That is, stake money vnder the line... H. Here is my monie, now stake you.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 188 He..No lesser of her Honour confident..stakes this Ring. View more context for this quotation
1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 44. 259 Other Ladies of the family are staking their halfpence at Put or All-Fours in the kitchen.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 113 Sir Philip staked his handsome horse Sawney against Archibald's sorry poney.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 9 I'll stake my ruby ring upon it you did.
1885 Spectator 25 July 977/2 The believer had the courage of his opinions and staked ten dollars on a magician whom he knew.
4. figurative. To risk the loss of, to hazard.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance or risk [verb (transitive)]
hazard1567
jumpa1616
risk1660
stake1670
chance1859
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. iv. 147 Men of Quality, who had generously stak'd their persons for the good of their fellow Citizens.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. v. 148 They had staked their lives against the chance of empire.
1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iv. 248 On it the sculptor Gibbs staked his immortality.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §4. 378 Mary had staked all on her union with Darnley.
5. colloquial (originally U.S.) To furnish with money or supplies, etc.; to grub-stake. Also with complement introduced by with or to indicating the commodity, etc., supplied.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > with provisions or stores
warnestorec1374
provision1604
stake1853
1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 219 The jofired mean whelp wouldn't stake me.
a1889 Chicago Herald in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang There is no doubt that he had plenty of money and plenty of clothing when he left, for his family staked him. It is known that he had $55 on the night preceding the murder.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson iv. 58 Tom staked him with marbles to play ‘keeps’ with.
1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders xxx. 356 Well, there's Burman. He's plunging in corn now. His father has staked him, and he swears he can't lose.
1917 G. B. McCutcheon Green Fancy 25 He staked her to a ticket to New York.
1922 H. L. Foster Adventures Trop. Tramp iii. 27 I'd better stake you to some heavier clothes.
1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xxiii. 333 He gave me a purse of money and muttered in my ear: ‘Tell nobody that I'm staking you, but put this on Scarlet.’
1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury LV. 88 If Jelly really had had some money, he might have staked him..to a hot. Good Southern cornbread with a piano on a platter.
1969 Coast to Coast 1967–8 138 They would stake him, buy his grub, supply him with horses and packs, pay him a hundred pounds for her scalp.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die ii. 38 He felt their happiness for him, and to repay it he said, ‘Now let me stake you guys, you too, Diane. Twenty grand apiece.’
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stakev.4

Forms: Also staik.
Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare stock v.1, which has a similar sense, though etymological connection is inadmissible.
Scottish. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To supply the needs of; to stock or furnish sufficiently with something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide for the wants or needs of
frameOE
providec1425
sorrow1481
stake1547
exhibit1601
sorry1601
consult1682
organize1892
1547 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 80 And ordains the said Abbot and his convent religious men be honestlie stakit and furnist.
1565–6 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 426 That thai, on na wayis, sell ony part..of the samyn wynis..unto the tyme thair Hienessis, the prelattis..and baronis be first stakit of thair necessaris thairof.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 162 Quhilk number [of preachers].. is sa small The Kirkis can not be stakit all.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 319 Collectouris maid in everie towne quhair salt vas maid to take vp sa mikill as to staik the cuntrie.
1583 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. Perceaving weill St Androis vaikit and syne how sone the knave was staikit.
a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. C2 He is weill staikit thereben, that will neither borrow nor len.
b. Of a thing: To supply the wants of, to be sufficient for, to satisfy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)] > satisfy (needs or desires)
sleckc1175
stanch1340
fulfilc1384
satiatec1450
satisfyc1475
slockc1480
expletea1500
supplya1513
satisfice?1531
suffice1533
stake1550
to fill up1600
1550 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 104 It salbe lesum to skynneris to pull samone voll skynnis as will staik tham to mak vark of within thair bothis.
1563 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 539/1 That thay that ar appointit..haue the principall mans.., or samekill thairof as salbe fundin sufficient for staiking of thame.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xi. 32 Ȝe suld considdir or ȝe taik thame [i.e. lovers] That littill scheruice will not staik thame.
?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament ii. sig. G2 Be the naked and simple preaching of the worde zee get faith; sa the simple word may staike zou.
c. intransitive. To suffice.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient [verb (intransitive)]
sufficec1340
servea1375
stretchc1374
suffiec1380
reach1446
stake1572
to pass muster1855
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxx. 213 This Tragedie may staik, to tell the Lordis,..The thrid of marche was worthy Methwen slane.
1583 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. To London Lowrie tuke the geat, With traine myt staik for his esteat.
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Eij Abusers, staikes it not to lurk in lust, Without [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈstaking n. (one's) fill.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire
fillc893
fulla1225
fillinga1400
sufficiencec1450
bellyful1535
stakinga1595
wameful1722
skinful1897
a1595 Descr. Isles Scotl. in W. Skene Celtic Scotl. (1880) III. App. iii. 431 [They] saltis na fisches, but eittis thair staiking and castis the rest on the land.
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