impone

im·pone

[im-pohn]
verb (used with object), im·poned, im·pon·ing. Obsolete.
to wager; stake.

Origin:
1520–30; < Latin impōnere to put in or upon, impose, equivalent to im- im-1 + pōnere to put, place; see pose1

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