Stake

Quick meaning: Stake is a noun meaning (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.

Meaning

(with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.

More Meanings

1. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
2. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
3. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
4. 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.
5. (croquet) 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

to stake vines or plants

A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.

Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.

The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.

Word Forms

• stakes
• staking
• staked

Synonyms for stake

Depending on context, synonyms include peg, bet, hazard, wager, venture, interest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impale, punt, back, game, post, gage.

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