Stake.
1. (Currying.) A post on which a skin is stretched while currying or graining.
2. (Husbandry.) a. An upright bar to support a vine or tree. b. One of the uprights of a wattled fence or screen. c. One of the pieces of timber leaning against the corner of a worm-fence, and serving with its fellow on the other side to hold the rider rail.
3. (Railway.) An upright bar held by staples on the edge of the bed of a platform car, to hold on the load of lumber, or the side and end boards which hold the coal, gravel, etc.
4. (Vehicle.) The upright or standard on the bolster of a wagon, to keep the bed, a log, or a load of lumber from shifting off sideways. See Fig. 705.
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5. (Metal-working.) A small anvil used by blacksmiths and sheetmetal workers. It usually has a tang, by which it is stuck in a square socket of a bench, block, or anvil. It has various forms in the different trades. a (Fig. 5527), a hatchet stake, from 2 to 10 inches wide, and used for bending the thin metals, as the edge of an anvil is used for bending thicker metal, by the blacksmith. b, a stake with a rounded edge. c, a stake with a rounded top. d, a stake with a ridged top. e, a stake with a conoidal top.
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| Stake-head. |
6. (Shipwrighting.) A regular course of planking on a ship. A strake.
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| Stake-iron bender. |
