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Definition of Staked
1. stake [v] - See also: stake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staked
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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