Word Finder - stakes

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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.

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We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.

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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.

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A stick 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.

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

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Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.

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A share or interest in a business or a given situation.

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

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That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

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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.

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A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

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To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.

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to stake vines or plants

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To pierce or wound with a stake.

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To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.

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To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.

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His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.

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The money wagered in gambling.

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Risks.

The stakes must be high - or maybe he simply enjoyed the game.

If tied to stakes and topped when 4 or 5 ft.

Young standard trees should be tied to stakes so as to prevent their roots being ruptured by the windwaving of the stems and to keep them erect.

The archers fixed the pointed stakes, which they carried to ward off cavalry charges, and opened the engagement with flights of arrows.

By offering the possibility of an eventual spot on the Texas Bikini Team, the stakes are higher than most other bikini contests.

She continued to laugh, "Don't you worry that news will spread, and the townspeople will come after you with torches and stakes?"

They'd stopped in the center of the meadow, the safe path through the traps marked by wooden stakes.

Its great value to the English forester is as a "nurse" for other trees, for which its dense leafage and tapering form render it admirably fitted, as it protects, without overshading, the young saplings, and yields saleable stakes and small poles when cut out.

Raspberries, grape vines, &c., that have been laid down may now be uncovered and tied up to stakes or trellises, and all new plantations of these and other fruits may now be made.

Tomatoes should be tied up to trellises or stakes if fine-flavoured and handsome fruit is desired, for if left to ripen on the ground they are apt to have a gross earthy flavour.

The mathematical theory of probability and the allied theory of the combinatorial analysis were in effect created by the correspondence between Pascal and Fermat, concerning certain questions as to the division of stakes in games of chance, which had been propounded to the former by the gaming philosopher De Mere.

The heads of the slain were fixed on stakes on each side of the road crossing the Ezbekia in Cairo.

Some hundreds of British heads were now eposed on stakes in Cairo, and the prisoners were marched between these mutilated remains of their countrymen.

However, the peasantry found, in the abjuration, matter contrary to their consciences, and while some recusants were shot out of hand, a girl named Margaret Wilson, with an old woman, Margaret MacLauchlan, were tied to stakes and drowned by the incoming tide, near Wigtown (13th of May 1685).

The plant should have a warm situation, and the soil should be light and well enriched; sow thinly early in April, either near a fence or wall, or in an open spot, where it will require stakes 6 to 8 ft.

The disastrous British expedition of 1807 followed; and while at Constantinople the prestige of the sultan was being undermined by the series of revolutions which in 1808 brought Mahmud to the throne, that of Mehemet Ali was enhanced by the exhibition at Cairo of British prisoners and an avenue of stakes decorated with the heads of British slain.

If the declarer succeeds in making at least the number of tricks he stood for he wins whatever stakes are played for; if not he loses.

If the player declaring Nap wins he receives double stakes all round; if he loses he only pays single stakes all round.

Piles of rocks are made on the muddy bottoms of these salt-water lakes, and around these are arranged circles of stakes, to which are often attached bundles of twigs.

Breeding oysters are piled upon the rookeries, and their young become attached to the stakes and twigs provided for their reception, where they are allowed to remain until ready for use, when they are plucked off and sent to the market.

There are many denominational charities, especially Mormon, the entire state being divided into ecclesiastical units or " stakes " for charity organization.

The Altenburg peasants are industrious and prosperous; they are said to be avaricious, but to love pleasure, and to gamble for high stakes, especially at the card game of Skat, which many believe to have been invented here.

They are diverted by means of a large band or dam, known indifferently as the " Amir's," the Seistan " or the "Kuhak " band, It is constructed of horizontally laid tamarisk branches, earth and perpendicular stakes, and protected from damage by a fort on the left and a tower on the right bank of the river.

Ceramics 1988 upped the stakes and stopped any sense of forming a pattern to be followed ad infinitum.

Ships had been reported bringing stakes and towing barges down from up river loaded with stone.

Neil stakes our claim on the spot whilst I get donuts.

In Maiden Stakes races the form punters will be backing the Top Trainers " best filly " who finished 2nd last time.

The Kirov is playing for very high stakes Kirov Opera is taking a huge gamble in touring with Wagner's Ring cycle.

You know very well, you eat this late... (Buffy stakes him) You're gonna get heartburn.

Meetings or ` stakes `, whether driven or walked-up are usually for 32 or 16 hounds with the occasional 24 hound stake organized.

What are the stakes in drawing out the mutual interrelation of material and virtual?

It's a simple plot but one that is well-written and absolutely masterful in the suspense stakes.

The ' Asian meltdown ' hit global markets during the preparation of this feature, upping the stakes in the widening risk debate.

If sir Percy wins wins the champion stakes with a rating of 130 then that will be his rating for the season.

Novel SERMs (selective estrogen receptor modulators) are taking a different tack in the R&D stakes.

We currently come seventh out of fifteen in the implementation stakes.

When Van Meter's nephew, Bobby Keogh joins sis and becomes Perry's partner, the stakes are raised.

These consisted of ditches with the earth piled up to form a bank into which wooden stakes were driven.

There will not be unlimited stakes and prizes on all of those, of course, because we could not afford that.

Le Lac (Tignes 2100m) Le Lac gives Val Claret a run for its money in the popularity stakes.

I've been to Barcelona and - just a tinier bit down on the international glamor stakes - Lytham St Annes.

Round stakes These are easier to knock in than square stobs, as the alignment is not so critical.

In addition the level stakes table is a good way of comparing tipsters across different types of bets.

Sadly the modern game has higher stakes than the past which in turn has made the game more volatile.

Although nothing can be more simple than the fundamental principle of general average, that a loss incurred for the advantage of all the coadventurers should be made good by them all in equitable proportion to their stakes in the adventure, the application of this principle to the varied and complicated cases which occur in the course of maritime commerce has given rise to many diversities of usage at different periods and in different countries.

Innovating will become table stakes just to stay in business, and innovation will be used to lower prices, not to increase them.

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

The lower stakes cracked more and more and at last the wall fell, and with it the men who had been pushing it.

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When Van Meter 's nephew, Bobby Keogh joins SIS and becomes Perry 's partner, the stakes are raised.