Staking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• STAKE, to fasten with a pointed piece of wood or metal
• support (a plant) with a stake or stakes
• mark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it
• be assertive in defining and defending a position or policy
• gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race
• give financial or other support to
NOUN:
• a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.
• a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment
• a long vertical rod used in basket-making.
• a territorial division of the Mormon Church under the jurisdiction of a president.
• a sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture
• a share or interest in a business, situation, or system
• prize money, especially in horse racing.
• a horse race in which all the owners of the racehorses running contribute to the prize money
• a situation involving competition in a specified area
• a metalworker's small anvil, typically with a projection for fitting into a socket on a bench.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten with a stake (a pointed piece of wood or metal)

Words related to STAKING

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Words that contain STAKING

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How to use STAKING in a sentence

• After a wait of several minutes Kazan was almost on the point of staking everything on a wild rush upon his enemies when a movement on the dam attracted his attention.
• Athens was now staking the flower of her forces, and the accumulated fruits of seventy years of glory, on one bold throw for the dominion of the western world.
• My best chance seemed to lie in stopping where I was as long as daylight lasted, and then staking everything on a successful burglary.
• In mentioning the moles to Priam he might be staking all to lose all.
• Slavery began the combat, staking its life, and determined to rule or die.
• As they had been duly forewarned by Bashti, the penalty for infraction of the rules he had laid down was staking out on the reef at low tide to be eaten by the fish-sharks.
• When though wilt engage with me in staking, thou wilt not be able to flow like the current of a river.
• A great end cannot be attained except by staking large intellectual and material resources, and no certainty of success can ever be anticipated.
• Give each plant a clear space of three or four feet to afford easy access for staking and watering.
• The disposition of the plants, and the method adopted for staking them, will, to a great extent, depend on the precise purpose for which the flowers are required.
• Give water freely when requisite, and in staking the plants take care that the ties do not cut the branches.
• The god and the dwarf ask each other a series of riddles, each staking his head upon the result.
• He was the one light-hearted man at that table, though he was staking his career, his life, and the life of the colony on the correctness of his judgment.
• The man who called on the gamblers to begin staking put out his hand to a large wheel sunk into the middle of the oblong table.
• He began staking five-franc pieces, and writing down notes in a small book.
• It was like staking everything on the last cast of the dice, but we were in the state of mind which precedes a desperate venture.
• He had certainly been very far from staking good florins upon it.
• We can get five hundred dollars out of a claim for simply staking it, and we know some good ones.
• After 1870 the pattern was dramatically altered as British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian forces moved inland, staking out their claims.
• Rose had bought land at a point through which the railroad was to run, and proposed staking it out as a town, but he needed a partner in the enterprise.
• I did a little of everything Even to staking out a pitch in a street fair.
• Sometimes, consulting his note-book or engaging in long calculations, an hour elapsed without his staking a chip.
• There was to be no staking by proxy while the real racer was off and away down the creek.
• But we see them staking their comfort, and all their prospects in life.
• Badcock has been staking upon an anthology, I upon the full basket and the whole hog.

Similar words containing STAK without suffix ing

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