n. 1 stick, post, spike, picket, paling, pale, pole, pike, stave; palisade, pole, upright, pillar, column They tied the goat to a stake and hid, waiting for the tiger to catch the scent 2 pull up stakes. move (house), resettle, move on, migrate, emigrate, leave, depart It was time to pull up stakes and find a new camp-site
v. 3 tether, tie (up), secure, fasten, picket, lash, leash, hitch, chain The ponies were staked out in the pasture 4 Usually, stake out. (a fence (in or off), confine, pen, enclose, close in or off, hem in, shut in, impound, enclose, cage, wall in We hired a man to stake out a large enough area to keep the horses b mark off or out, define, delimit, outline, demarcate, delineate, circumscribe The pioneers had already staked out the land they planned to cultivate