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Webster 1828 Edition
Staking
STAKING
,ppr.
1.
Supporting with stakes; marking with stakes; wagering; putting at hazard.2.
Sharpening; pointing.Definition 2024
staking
staking
English
Verb
staking
- present participle of stake
Noun
staking (plural stakings)
- An act of stabbing with a stake.
- 2009, Jonathan Maberry, David F. Kramer, They Bite
- Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism.
- 2009, Jonathan Maberry, David F. Kramer, They Bite