0 past simple and past participle of stake
2 to hold up and support something by fastening it to stakes:
Tomato plants should be staked.
The author in fact staked out a position that was not merely offensive, but quite blatantly seditious.
Two pods at each site were protected from mammalian seed predators by 1-m high wirecloth cages, which were securely staked to the ground.
Each plant was staked with a single vertical stake 1.5 m high.
Yam seedlings were staked to about 3.5-m height and vines were trained regularly.
In the process, he has staked out - and claimed leadership of - one of the principal positions in a reinvigorated debate.
Some ' moderate ' preachers staked out the ground between these extremes.
Two treatments were applied for both fruit and seed density- and habitat-dependent removal experiments: (1) partial exclosure, protected with a mesh-wire cage staked down to the ground.
Dunbar staked out his claim to mine that material himself with originality, subtlety, and daring.
