• Finnish: panos
• Polish: stawka
• Russian: ставка

• Czech: kůl
• Russian: кол (kol)

Verb

1. To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
2. To pierce or wound with a stake.
3. To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.

   I'll stake yon lamb, that near the fountain plays. --Pope.

4. In the context of "transitive|poker": To provide another with money in order to play.

   John went broke, so in order to play Jill had to stake him

Related terms

• stake out

Translations

• ttbc Chinese: 賭, 赌
• ttbc German: anpflocken, anbinden, hochbinden, pfählen
• ttbc Italian: picchettare, scommettere
• ttbc Portuguese: estacar
• ttbc Russian: укрепить
• ttbc Spanish: estacar
• ttbc Serbian: kolac
• ttbc Slovenian: grmada

Anagrams

• skate
• steak
• takes

Stake may refer to:

• In business, a stake is a share of ownership of a company.
• Stake: Fortune Fighters, the 2003 Xbox game
• Stake (Latter Day Saints), an administrative unit of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Latter Day Saint denominations
• Stake (lawn game) is a popular lawn game played by 2 or more persons by throwing a metal spike in to the ground.
• Sudis (stake), field fortification carried by Roman legionaries
• In folklore and mythology, a wooden stake, like silver bullets, have special powers to kill monsters via impalement. See vampire, werewolf
• Execution by burning, to ancient Christians, a stake was a pole to which people accused of heresy or witchcraft were tied and "burned at the stake"
• In gambling, a stake is the quantity of money or other goods that is risked on the outcome of some specific event
  • As a result, many horse races' names end in the word "Stakes", causing metaphoric usages such as "an animal winning the reproduction stakes".
• A torture stake, a method of execution similar to crucifixion using a single pole or stake in lieu of a cross, killing the victim by asphyxiation. See impalement.
• A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing fertilizer to aid the growth of plants, and in mythology slaying a vampire
• A stake is a polished iron shape, very firmly mounted, used by silversmiths in the manner of a blacksmith's anvil
• "Stakes" is the established acronym for the official research bureau of welfare and health in Finland.

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