Amounts being bet

Usage examples of stakes.

Like a pair of explosives experts gingerly snipping through the last two wires of a bomb, we both lowered our stakes and took an unsteady step back.

The points at which the contour lines cross the section lines are found in the following manner: On the second line from the west side of the field we find the elevations of the 4th, 5th and 6th stakes from the southern boundary to be 1.

By this means, measuring the distance from the soundings to the ranges of the stakes, we can denote on the map the shape and depth of sunken rocks.

The first step is to fix certain prominent points, which will serve to connect the map with the field, by actual measurements, and this will very easily be done by the aid of the stakes which are still standing at the intersections of the 50-foot lines, which were used in the preliminary levelling.

Then stake the angles and the upper ends of the laterals, and mark these stakes to correspond with the map.

The position of the stakes should all be lettered on the map, at the original drawing, and the same designating marks put on the stakes in the field, as soon as set.

The tops of these stakes furnish fixed points of elevation from which to take the measurements, and to make the computations necessary to fix the depth of the drain at each stake.

For convenience, the letterings of the stakes should be systematically entered in a small field book, before the work commences, and this should be accompanied by such a sketch of the plan as will serve as a guide to the location of the lines on the ground.

Enter the lettering of the stakes in the first column, commencing at the lower end of the drain.

It is better to dig the ditches at one side of the lines of stakes, far enough away for the earth to hold them firmly in their places, but near enough to allow measurements to be taken from the grade pegs.

Kane is and I pay a welcome-to-Maplesburg visit on him with a goodie basket of stakes, garlic and holy water.

In the end, those who remained came for me with stakes and crosses and I barely escaped with my undead life.

On the fourth day stakes were driven into the ground, delimiting a ceremonial area, and on the fifth a sacred place was identified within this area.

Its name had come from Spanish explorers who drove stakes as they crossed it, so that they could find their way back across its featureless domain.

Spanish legend says stakes were driven to mark the only trail across the desert.