stake

stake (danh từ) nghĩa là cọc, cọc gỗ.

1. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.Một thanh bằng gỗ hoặc vật liệu khác, thường dài, mảnh và nhọn một đầu để dễ đóng xuống đất làm dấu, làm trụ đỡ hoặc giữ cố định.
2. A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.Cọc gỗ đóng ở giữa sân croquet, dùng làm đích kết thúc sau khi bóng đã đi qua 12 cổng.
3. A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
4. The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.

• We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
• Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
• The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.