a wooden stake

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• Stake — may refer to: * A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as slaying vampires, demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing… …   Wikipedia

• stake — Ⅰ. stake [1] ► NOUN 1) a strong post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, etc. 2) (the stake) historical a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive. ► VERB 1) support (a… …   English terms dictionary

• stake — stake1 [ steık ] noun ** 1. ) count a wooden or metal post with a pointed end that is used for supporting or marking something a ) the stake a thick wooden pole that someone was tied to and burned in the past as a punishment: be burned at the… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• stake — I UK [steɪk] / US noun Word forms stake : singular stake plural stakes ** 1) a) [countable] business the part of a business that you own because you have invested money in it stake in: They took a 40% stake in the company last year. a… …   English dictionary

• stake — [[t]ste͟ɪk[/t]] ♦♦ stakes, staking, staked 1) PHRASE If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful. The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake... At stake is the success… …   English dictionary

• stake*/ — [steɪk] noun I 1) [C] business the part of a business that you own because you have invested money in it They took a 40% stake in the company last year.[/ex] 2) [C] an amount of money that you risk losing when you try to guess the result of a… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• stake — stake1 noun 1》 a strong post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, etc.     ↘historical a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment. 2》 a small anvil,… …   English new terms dictionary

• stake — [1] A panel beating tool formed like a dolly, but with a shaft attached allowing it to be clamped in a vice. [2] The wooden bars which fit into the sides of the bed of a truck …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Cross or stake as gibbet on which Jesus died — Writers hold different views on the form of the gibbet used in the execution of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity, and differ about the meaning of the Greek word stauros (σταυρός) which was used in the New Testament books to refer to it.… …   Wikipedia

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• Crucifixion — For other uses, see Crucifixion (disambiguation). Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, by Marco Palmezzano (Uffizi, Florence), painting ca. 1490 …   Wikipedia