Definition of stake

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Stake (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants..

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Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..
Blunder :: Blunder (v. i.) To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription..
Palisade :: Palisade (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
Stanchion :: Stanchion (n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay..
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another..
Main :: Main (n.) A stake played for at dice.
Mistake :: Mistake (n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
Misunderstanding :: Misunderstanding (n.) Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.
Raffle :: Raffle (v.) 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..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
Misremember :: Misremember (v. t. & i.) To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
Misinterpretation :: Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
Detect :: Detect (v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account..
Spile :: Spile (n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..
Pool :: Pool (n.) 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..
Quite :: Quite (a.) Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken..
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