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One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

ion to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope.

Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]

Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.

ter, King Charles. Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor Macaulay.

To stake at play; to wager; to risk. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him. Wake.

le streams. [U.S.] -- Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2. How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. J. Cotgrave.

ak. -- Sooner or later, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later. -- With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. [Obs.] Holland.

pon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.

A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile. Spile hole, a small air hole in a cask; a vent.

A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.

A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race.

An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.

. The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Isa. xxviii. 17. I have already swept the stakes. Dryden.

t may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language. Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter. Chaucer.

A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.