wooden stake

collocation in English

meaningsofwoodenandstake

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wooden
adjective
uk
/ˈwʊd.ən/us
/ˈwʊd.ən/
made ...
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stake
noun[C]
uk
/steɪk/us
/steɪk/
a share or a financial involvement in something such as ...
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(Definition ofwoodenandstakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Each seed was placed next to a 20-cm longwoodenstakethat had a 5-cm piece of flagging tape at the top.
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Lycia is tied to awoodenstakein the arena.
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Awoodenstakeholding the fence impaled him.
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It consisted of a cylindrical concrete main body on top of a shortwoodenstake.
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They accidentally unearthed a skeleton, reportedly buried upside down and with the remains of thewoodenstakethrough its torso.
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He can only be destroyed by exposure to sunlight or by awoodenstakethrust through his heart.
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The best known type of executions of death by burning is when the condemned is bound to a largewoodenstake.
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Awoodenstakehad been driven between the carapace and the plastron, and there is evidence of a fire under the tortoise.
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While running through the woods, they happen upon the pregnant hippie, who impales herself on awoodenstakeafter she learns she has rabies.
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The radiocarbon date for thewoodenstakewas 12,030 years ago, and for a bone from the tortoise, 13,450 years ago.
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But when he goes to get awoodenstakeand bring it back, she revives and continues to wail on him.
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Worm grunting generally refers to the use of a stob, awoodenstakethat is driven into the ground, and a rooping iron which is used to rub the stob.
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