A stake is a strong metal, plastic, or wooden stick with a pointed end often driven into the ground. Stakes hold down tents for example.
Staking a claim regards asserting claim and or control over an aforementioned object or quantity. The infinitive verb "to stake," historically referred to a wooden marker, also known as a "stake," used to mark property.
raise the stakes means increasing the importance or significance in matters
If something is impaled it is usually on something as in stabbed completely through by it.
There was a $500 prize at stake.The man put his reputation at stake.At stake was control of the Republican party.
We lost one stake and we need it to put up the tent.
What is mean by Stake
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To be "Burnt at the Stake" is to be tied to a piece of wood pounded in the ground (A "Stake") and to be lit on fire. Burning at the stake is is when someone is tied to a wooden stake and the stake is set on fire. You burn to death.
he means that he has a chain attached to him, which is attached to a stake presumably in the ground.
It's not an idiom. The definition of "at stake" is what is being risked in the situation or venture. A stake is a share or ownership in something.
it means when you make money
"Betting" is the process of placing a stake on something in order to predict an outcome of a particular situation.
Rain, Spain and gain.
Steak is cooked beef and a stake is something you put in the ground (it could also mean odds, as in "the stakes are high").
Staking a claim regards asserting claim and or control over an aforementioned object or quantity. The infinitive verb "to stake," historically referred to a wooden marker, also known as a "stake," used to mark property.
The homophones of "stake" are "steak" and "stake."
raise the stakes means increasing the importance or significance in matters