staking

staking

1. present participle of stake

staking (plural stakings)

1. An act of stabbing with a stake.
   • 2009, Jonathan Maberry, David F. Kramer, They Bite

     Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism.

• Gitksan, skating, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, takings, tasking

From staken +‎ -ing. First attested in the sixteenth century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.kɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: sta‧king

staking f (plural stakingen, diminutive stakinkje n)

1. strike (work stoppage) [from 19th c.]
2. cessation, delay, the act of ending or delaying something
3. deadlock, tie in voting

• estafettestaking
• hongerstaking
• leerlingenstaking
• stakingsbreker
• stakingsrecht
• werkstaking

• → West Frisian: staking