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staking¹

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verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of stake

staking²

Where it comes from

From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake + -ing.

noun stakings

  1. An act of stabbing with a stake. 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.

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@misc{staking_2026,
  title = {staking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/staking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}