A stake is a large wooden or metal implement designed to be driven into the ground and may refer to:

Tools

Archer's stake An archer's stake was an anti-cavalry defence used by English longbow, longbowmen in the 15th and 16th centuries. Origins At the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 Turkish archers were stationed behind a barrier of stakes. This may have inspired Henr ...

, a defensive stake carried by medieval longbowmen *

Survey stakes Construction surveying or building surveying (otherwise known as "staking", "stake-out", "lay-out", or "setting-out") is to provide dimensional control for all stages of construction work, including the stake out of reference points and markers t ...

, markers used by surveyors *

Sudis (stake) The ''sudis'' (: ''sudes'') was a stake carried by Roman legionaries for employment as a field fortification, sometimes also called ''vallus''. It is frequently, but incorrectly, called a ''pilum murale'' (). Typically, two such stakes were ca ...

(Latin for "stake"), a fortification carried by Roman legionaries *

Torture stake Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. It was used as a punishment by the Achaemenid Empire, Persians, Carthaginians, ...

, a method of execution similar to crucifixion, tying or nailing the victim to an upright pole in lieu of a cross *

Steel fence post A steel fence post, also called (depending on design or country) a T-post, a Y-post, or variants on star post, is a type of fence post or picket. They are made of steel and are sometimes manufactured using durable rail steel. They can be used t ...

, a kind of stake * Side stakes used on flatcars etc

Entertainment

* '' Stake: Fortune Fighters'', a 2003 video game * '' The Stake'', a 1915 silent short film * "The Stake", a 1977 song by The Steve Miller Band from ''

Book of Dreams ''Book of Dreams'' is the tenth studio album by Steve Miller Band. The album was released in May 1977 on Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan and by Mercury Records in Europe. Three singles were released from the album in 1977 ...

'' * ''Stakes'' (miniseries), a Cartoon Network miniseries, aired as part of the seventh season of ''Adventure Time'' * Stake (band)

People

Dagnija Staķe Dagnija Staķe (born 3 September 1951, Vietalva parish) is a Latvian politician ( Latvian Farmers' Union) and the Minister of Regional Development and Local Governments of Latvia from 13 May to 3 November 2010. References 1951 births L ...

(born 1951), Latvian politician * Robert E. Stake (born 1927), Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Betting and gambling

Stakes race The following is a glossary of North American horse racing. Additional glossaries at: *Glossary of Australian and New Zealand punting *Glossary of equestrian terms This is a basic glossary of equestrian terms that includes both technical term ...

, a type of horse race **

Graded stakes race A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA). A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is th ...

Companies

Stake (platform) Stake is an Australian financial services company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It was founded in 2017 by Matt Leibowitz, Dan Silver and Jon Abitz. Stake predominately offers low-cost brokerage services to retail investors in Australia, Ne ...

, an Australian financial services company * Stake.com, an online casino *

@stake ATstake, Inc. (stylized as @stake) was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initi ...

, a computer services company

Other uses

Equity (finance) In finance, equity is an ownership interest in property that may be subject to debts or other liabilities. Equity is measured for accounting purposes by subtracting liabilities from the value of the assets owned. For example, if someone owns a ...

stake, the part of a company or business owned by a shareholder *

Stake (Latter Day Saints) A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in certain denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. The name "stake" derives from the Book of Isaiah: "enlarge the place of thy tent; stretch forth the curtains of thine h ...

, a regional organization in some Latter Day Saint churches *

Hill of Stake Hill of Stake is a hill on the boundary between North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, Scotland. Geography The hill is high and is the highest point of the relatively low-lying county of Renfrewshire and indeed the entire Clyde Muirshiel Regional P ...

, a hill on the boundary between North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, Scotland *