staith, staithe, stat he

[A. S. stædh a bank, a shore; Icel. stödha harbor, a roadstead.] 1. A landing-place. "On arriving at the staiths they ascertained that one of the men answering to the description was on board the ship."-London Daily Telegraph . 2. An elevated railroad-staging, from which coal cars discharge their loads into cars or ve els beneath. ( Eng .) staith-măn, s. [ Eng.staith, and man.] A man employed in weighing and shipping coal at a staith. ( Eng.) stāke, s . [ A.S.staka =astake, from the same root as stick , v. (q.v.); cogn. with O. Dut.stake , staeck = a stake; Dutch staak , steken = to stab, to prick; Icel. stjaki = a stake, a punt-pole; Danish stage = a stake; Sw. stake = a stake; Ger. stake = a stake, a pole. Allied to stack (q. v.).] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, ropewalk, to support the yarns while spinning. The upper edge of the bar has pegs to separate the yarns which are spun by the respective whirls in the spinner. stake-holder, s. 1. Ord . Lang .: One who holds the stakes, or with whom bets are deposited, when a wager is made. 2. Law : One with whom a deposit is made by two or more who lay claim to it. stake-iron, s. Vehicles: The same as STAKE, 8., II. 4. stāke, v. t. [STAKE, 8.] 1. To set or plant like a stake; to fasten, support, or defend with stakes. " Stake and bind up your weakest plants and flowers against the winds."- Evelyn : Kalendar. 2. To set stakes in; to fill with stakes. "Then caus'd his ships the river up to stake , That none with victual should the town relieve." Drayton: Battle of Agin court. 3. To mark the limits of by stakes. (Now followed by out .) "First the nemnid alle the, the purale suld make, That thorgh the reame suld go, the boundes for to stake ." R. Brunne, p. 309. *4. To keep out by means of stakes. (Followed by out .) "On the bank of loose stones above the mud and stakes that staked the tide out."-Dickens: Great Expectations, ch. iii. 5. To pierce or wound with a stake. "A horse so badly staked that its life was not worth an old song."- Field , Dec. 26, 1885. 6. To wager, to pledge; to hazard on the i ue of some event. "Every man who heads a rebellion against an estab lished government stakes his life on the event."- Ha. caulay: Hist. Eng., v. 7. To tie a hore to a stake by means of a rope. stāke-nět, s. [Eng. stake , and net . ] A form of net for catching salmon, consisting of a sheet of network stretched upon stakes fixed into the ground, chin, generally in rivers or friths, where the sea ebbs and flows, with contrivances for entangling and catching the fish. *stak-er, *stak-ker, v . i. [Icel. stakra .] To stagger (q. v.). "She riste her vp, and stakkereth here and there." Chaucer: Legende of Hypermestre.