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.
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.
Other meanings of the word:
at stake Stake a claim