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v. t.
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
n.
One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
n.
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
n.
A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
n.
A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
n.
A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
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Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
n.
A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
n.
A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
n.
A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
n.
To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
v. t.
To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
v. t.
To take the spars, stakes, or bars from.
v. t.
To fortify with pointed stakes.
n.
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
n.
A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
v.
A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
v. t.
An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
v. t.
To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
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