Слово "stake". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

About the neck of each dog he had fastened a leather thong. To this, and so close to the neck that the dog could not get his teeth to it, he had tied a stout stick four or five feet in length. The other end of the stick, in turn, was made fast to a stake in the ground by means of a leather thong.

"They tie a goat to a stake and then hide out in a blind.

because our freedom is at stake:

Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can ‘pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives—but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."

All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a faÁade.

For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up.

They say that there were no ashes left, even though the stake was made of fresh wood.

One of them rubbed the cushion with the forefinger of her glove, and showed the result to the other, and they both sighed, and sat down, with the air of early Christian martyrs trying to make themselves comfortable up against the stake.

There was the business, this house, Nancy, the family name — all of it at stake.

“I think you will find,” said Sherlock Holmes, “that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, the stake will be some £30,000; and for you, Jones, it will be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands.”

"The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you place on the table.

Countries that have less stake in the system

We would see pioneers staking claims on the moon and on asteroids and protecting those claims with force.

Of course, in teaming, the stakes aren't always life and death.

So the stakes are very, very high.

You-all think gold-hunting is the only way to make a stake.

“ ‘That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you have stolen,’ said I. And then, realising the dreadful position in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell me what he had done with the three missing stones.

I’m not worried about Jem keeping his head, but Scout’d just as soon jump on someone as look at him if her pride’s at stake....”

For that reason I'll stake my life that he is telling her at this moment she must never let us be together alone after this evening.

We would see pioneers staking claims on the moon and on asteroids and protecting those claims with force.

There were two numbers on which nobody had staked. Five and six.

"But, dear lady, while we are staking our lives, we are old enough to know it.

The stake was in his hands, the stake sharpened at both ends, the stake that vibrated so wildly, that grew long, short, light, heavy, light again.

"Should we play for a stake?

Sharikov staked his all on one preposterous card:

I'd stake my reputation on your sanity."

And metal latticework and foil heat shield of barrel stopped stray radiation, thus "ears" I had staked out heard nothing.

He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.

"If he likes you, he might stake you."