stake

Meaning

1. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
2. A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
3. A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
4. The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
6. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
7. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
8. A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

post

bet on

ranging pole

surveying rod

make bold

stick on

digging tool

empale

fence post

gamble on

lay a wager

wager on

wooden pin

put money on something

supporting pillar

musical passage

brace strut

support stand

buckstay

support pillar

supporting block

supporting column

molding pin

place a bet

involvment

stand leg

supporting strut

strut rod

prop mainstay

support leg

support post

post column

grizzly bar

surveying stake

sand pin

wooden crowbar

be bold

be on

double crochet

double stitch

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/steɪk/

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake.