0 present participle of stake
2 to hold up and support something by fastening it to stakes:
Tomato plants should be staked.
Finally, commercial software developers are staking their claims in this rapidly growing area of research.
Effects of cultivations and heights and directions of staking on yield and general performance of eight yam cultivars.
Even when not done as a bargaining tactic, staking out a position makes it hard to change.
Towards a critical regionalism: staking our claim on the multimedia concept.
These require staking and, therefore, are unsuitable for field-scale cultivation.
Colonial-era intellectuals were actively staking out a position in relation to the pre-colonial past.
Fifth, the logistics of dealing with legal, economic and bureaucratic institutions are often formidable and work against women staking their claims.
We regard as hard gambling those forms likely to cause problem gambling among customers—for example, because of high frequency combined with high staking.