Stake 255620 209498167 2008-05-01T17:31:59Z Aitias 5947179 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/59.180.151.213|59.180.151.213]] to last version by MK8 {{wiktionary|stake}} '''Stake''' may refer to: * In business, a stake is a share of ownership of a company.<ref>[http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/stake_2?view=uk Ask Oxford]</ref> * [[Stake: Fortune Fighters]], the 2003 Xbox game * [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)]], an administrative unit of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] and other Latter Day Saint denominations * [[Stake (lawn game)]] is a popular lawn game played by 2 or more persons by throwing a metal spike in to the ground. * [[Sudis (stake)]], field fortification carried by Roman legionaries * In [[folklore]] and [[mythology]], a wooden stake, like silver bullets, have special powers to kill monsters via impalement. See [[vampire]], [[werewolf]] * [[Execution by burning]], to ancient Christians, a stake was a pole to which people accused of heresy or witchcraft were tied and "burned at the stake" * In [[gambling]], a stake is the quantity of money or other goods that is risked on the outcome of some specific event ** As a result, many [[horse race]]s' names end in the word "Stakes", causing metaphoric usages such as "an animal winning the reproduction stakes". * A ''torture stake'', a method of execution similar to [[crucifixion]] using a single pole or stake in lieu of a cross, killing the victim by [[asphyxiation]]. See [[impalement]]. * A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing fertilizer to aid the growth of plants, and in mythology slaying a [[vampire]] * A stake is a polished iron shape, very firmly mounted, used by silversmiths in the manner of a blacksmith's [[anvil]] * "[http://www.stakes.fi/EN/index.htm Stakes]" is the established acronym for the official [[research]] bureau of welfare and health in [[Finland]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{disambig}} [[de:Pfahl]] [[es:Estaca]]