Definition of Staked

1. Verb. (past of stake) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Staked

1. stake [v] - See also: stake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Staked

staisfise
staith
staithe
staithes
staithman
staithmen
staiths
stake
stake-driver
stake a claim
stake driver
stake of Zion
stake out
stake race
stakebuilding
staked (current term)
staked out
stakehead
stakeheads
stakeholder
stakeholder society
stakeholders
stakeholdership
stakeholderships
stakeholding
stakeholdings
stakehole
stakeholes
stakelike
stakeout

Literary usage of Staked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1890)
"THE staked Plains are shown to be an extensive mesa, which was an interior base level in late Tertiary or early Quaternary time. Its surface is covered by a ..."

2. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles by Nelson Appleton Miles, Marion Perry Maus (1896)
"The staked Plains of Texas has been spoken of as a "desert" ... MARCHING ON THE staked PLAIN. also true that it abounds in fertile valleys and rich ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"It Is from forty to sixty miles wide and eight hundred feet beneath the ancient base level of the staked Plains, and filled with a ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"In their deeds was identical with the lot staked out by Barnes. ... Butler had occupied the lot staked out, supposing it to be the land described in bis ..."

5. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Old Times" — Terrified Animals — Fun in Mid-Winter — Traps and Snares— Luckless Anglers — Abhorrence of Fish — The staked Plains — Origin of the Buffalo ..."

6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"ing purposes, means the fund of money offered and ready to be staked on all bets others may make against the banker on a game which he keeps or exhibits. ..."

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