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Pole used to shove cars into the clear when switching. (See stake)
Any engineering-department man
A drag race where the stakes are the car’s pink slip (hot-rodders)
Stakeout is slang for a police surveillance of an area, house, or criminal suspect.
Bankroll, stake Punch (as in “take a poke atâ€)
To depart in a hurry. Same as "cut stick."
Stake is American slang for a saved sum of money; a store of provisions.
Stakey is Canadian slang for well provided with money.
The dry, treeless plains of Texas and New Mexico, also called the "Staked Plains."
a small, mean trader; an usurer with small capital; small cubes of tobacco used as stakes in playing cards
stakes or posts
Pole used in dangerous and now rare method of switching. A cut of cars was shoved by a stake attached to the car immediately in front of the engine. This method was supposed to be superior to the ordinary method of "batting them out" because there was less wear and tear on drawbars and less damage to freight; but the human casualties that resulted gave more than one yard the nickname "slaughterhouse." Another meaning of stake is the money a boomer saved on a job so he could resign and continue eating regularly while looking for another job
Small stake.
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v. t.
To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
v. t.
To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
v. t.
To take the spars, stakes, or bars from.
n.
The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
v. t.
A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
a.
Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business.
v. t.
To stake; to wager.
v. t.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
n.
A stake; a small post.
v. t.
To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
v. i.
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
v. t.
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
n.
A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
v. t.
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
imp. & p. p.
of Stake
v. t.
To pierce or wound with a stake.
n.
The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
n.
A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes.
v. t.
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
n.
The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
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