[steyk] 
,noun, verb, staked, stak⋅ing.| 1. | a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc. |
| 2. | a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning. |
| 3. | the stake, the punishment of death by burning: Joan of Arc was sentenced to the stake. |
| 4. | one of a number of vertical posts fitting into sockets or staples on the edge of the platform of a truck or other vehicle, as to retain the load. |
| 5. | Mormon Church. a division of ecclesiastical territory, consisting of a number of wards presided over by a president and two counselors. |
| 6. | sett (def. 2). |
| 7. | to mark with or as if with stakes (often fol. by off or out): We staked out the boundaries of the garden. |
| 8. | to possess, claim, or reserve a share of (land, profit, glory, etc.) as if by marking or bounding with stakes (usually fol. by out or off): I'm staking out ten percent of the profit for myself. |
| 9. | to separate or close off by a barrier of stakes. |
| 10. | to support with a stake or stakes, as a plant: to stake tomato vines. |
| 11. | to tether or secure to a stake, as an animal: They staked the goat in the back yard. |
| 12. | to fasten with a stake or stakes. |
| 13. | stake out,
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| 14. | pull up stakes, Informal. to leave one's job, place of residence, etc.; move: They pulled up stakes and went to California. |
