staking

From stake +‎ -ing.

staking

1. present participle and gerund of stake

From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake +‎ -ing.

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 Dutch staking. Equivalent to staak +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑː.kəŋ/

staking (plural stakings, diminutive stakinkie)

1. strike (work stoppage)

   Daar is stakings in die mynbougebiede.

   There are strikes in the mining regions.

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

• Afrikaans: staking
• → West Frisian: staking

staking

1. alternative form of stakyng