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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.
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What does it mean to stake claim to?
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.
A pointed wooden stick to be driven in to the ground?
A tent-peg. A spike. A stake.
What does raise the stake mean?
raise the stakes means increasing the importance or significance in matters
What does impaled mean?
If something is impaled it is usually on something as in stabbed completely through by it.
How can you use the words at stake in a sentence?
There was a $500 prize at stake.The man put his reputation at stake.At stake was control of the Republican party.
What you mean by stake?
What is mean by Stake
What does Staurous mean?
Stake
What does it mean to be burnt at stake?
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.
What does Octavius mean in Julius Caesar when he says 'We are chained to the stake'?
he means that he has a chain attached to him, which is attached to a stake presumably in the ground.
What does the idiom at stake mean?
The idiom "at stake" means that something important or valuable is at risk or in question. It implies that the outcome of a situation will have significant consequences.
What does work up a stake mean?
it means when you make money
What does betting stake mean?
"Betting" is the process of placing a stake on something in order to predict an outcome of a particular situation.
What rhymes with stake and mean a pain?
Rain, Spain and gain.
What is the difference between stake and steak and how are they related?
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").
What does it mean to stake claim to?
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.
What are the homophones of stake?
The homophones of "stake" are "steak" and "stake."
A pointed wooden stick to be driven in to the ground?
A tent-peg. A spike. A stake.
