Definition of stake

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Stake (v. t.) 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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Disabuse :: Disabuse (v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Scare :: Scare (n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake..
Vie :: Vie (v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie..
Main :: Main (n.) A stake played for at dice.
Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
Impalement :: Impalement (n.) An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed..
Mistaker :: Mistaker (n.) One who mistakes.
Bank :: Bank (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses..
Stang :: Stang (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
Alestake :: Alestake (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a bush..
Trunch :: Trunch (n.) A stake; a small post.
Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Impone :: Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
Sweepstakes :: Sweepstakes (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
Quite :: Quite (a.) Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken..
Teest :: Teest (n.) A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil..
Mistaken :: Mistaken (p. p.) of Mistak.
Inerringly :: Inerringly (adv.) Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly..
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