Ante; wager

Usage examples of stake.

With such words, Dostoevsky is anticipatorily staking out the novelistic domain in which he will soon achieve his greatest triumphs.

As I joined the autostrada, I wondered how long Giani would stake out the pensione.

Sharpened stakes were stuck in the sides of the ramparts, so that the compound bristled, like some great hedgehog of wood and mud.

I took all the gold I found, and playing the martingale, and doubling my stakes continuously, I won every day during the remainder of the carnival.

A similar false note is struck by any speaker or writer who misapprehends his position or forgets his disqualifications, by newspaper writers using language that is seemly only in one who stakes his life on his words, by preachers exceeding the license of fallibility, by moralists condemning frailty, by speculative traders deprecating frank ways of hazard, by Satan rebuking sin.

The verdigrised black head and cape of an ancient Molt were mounted on a stake welded to the bow of one of the cars.

Although the guardsmen still struggled to keep the space around the torture stake open, hands reached from the sides and back to pull Muru down.

She thought that she could probably walk right out of the bailey and across the drawbridge, lowered now for the constant influx and outflux of traffic, pedestrian and vehicular alike, but too much was at stake for her to take a chance of being recognized and stopped.

Butler, one of the two heavy weapons men, who carried the machine gun, saying it was Persico who checked his aiming stakes, who told him where to tie in his fire, who supervised the laying of the claymores.

She was fond of piquet, and we played together for small stakes for some time.

He saw what the Ploughers and the Castellans had failed to see, namely that while Toom Drommel and his party had no great desire to be associated with either the economic ineptitude of the Ploughers, or the strutting posturing of the Castellans, they also had no desire to be seen as a party that could not make up its mind, or take a stern stand where the safety of Madren citizens was at stake.

The rich man who reposes In his ancestral shade, The peasant at his ploughshare, The worker at his trade, Each one his all his perilled, Each has the same great stake, Each soul can but have patience, Each heart can only break!

Carefully balanced, the sheet would tilt down when an unwitting soldier stepped on it, impaling his body on the pungi stakes arranged below.

The corn stubble had mostly been plowed under, but much of it still projected from the ground at crazy angles like pungi stakes.

I hate to sound stupid like this, but what in the Hell is a punji stake?