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- English Word Staithman Definition A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.
- English Word Stake Definition A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
- English Word Stake Definition A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
- English Word Stake Definition The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.
- English Word Stake Definition A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
- English Word Stake Definition That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- English Word Stake Definition To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
- English Word Stake Definition To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
- English Word Stake Definition To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
- English Word Stake Definition To pierce or wound with a stake.
- English Word Stake-driver Definition The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
- English Word Staked Definition of Stake
- English Word Stakehead Definition A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
- English Word Stakeholder Definition The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
- English Word Staking Definition of Stake
- English Word Staktometer Definition A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette.
- English Word Stal Definition Stole.
- English Word Stalactic Definition Alt. of Stalactical
- English Word Stalactical Definition Stalactic.
- English Word Stalactite Definition A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.