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Webster 1828 Edition

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Supporting with stakes; marking with stakes; wagering; putting at hazard.

Sharpening; pointing.

staking

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.

From staken +‎ -ing

staking f ‎(plural stakingen, diminutive stakinkje n)