staking

Verb

stake (third-person singular simple present stakes, present participle staking, simple past and past participle staked)

1. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
   • to stake vines or plants
2. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
   • You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it.1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
3. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
   • I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys.1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 725

   Synonyms:

   bet, hazard, wager

4. (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
   • John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
5. To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
   • Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.2019, Elad Elrom, “Blockchain Basics”, in The Blockchain Developer […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 23
6. (obsolete) To stretch leather skin over a piece of iron held knee-height, in preparation to use the skin in the creation of gloves.

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