stake
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.
Example
“We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.”
Other meanings
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.
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.
A kind of
- post
Related words
- grubstake
- merestake
- stakebed
- stakebuilding
- stakehead
- stakeholding
- stakehole
- stakelike
- stakenet
- stakewall
- sweepstake
- swoopstake
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "staca" (pin, tack, stake).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “stake” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.