Stake

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A stake is a long wooden pole. The Catolic Church used it to fix victims to it. Those were witches and warlocks to be burnt, usually for witchcraft.


Other meanings of the word:

  • Modern meanings of the word are staking (around) with a boat, in shallow waters by using the stake to push the boat around in the shallows.
  • at stake
  • Stake a claim
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