staking
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
staking
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake + -ing.
NounEdit
staking (plural stakings)
- 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.
- 2009, Jonathan Maberry, David F. Kramer, They Bite
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch staking. Equivalent to staak + -ing.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
staking (plural stakings, diminutive stakinkie)
- strike (work stoppage)
- Daar is stakings in die mynbougebiede.
- There are strikes in the mining regions.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From staken + -ing. First attested in the sixteenth century.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
staking f (plural stakingen, diminutive stakinkje n)
- strike (work stoppage) [from 19th c.]
- cessation, delay, the act of ending or delaying something
- deadlock, tie in voting
Derived termsEdit
- estafettestaking
- hongerstaking
- klimaatstaking
- leerlingenstaking
- spoorwegstaking
- stakingsbreker
- stakingsgolf
- stakingskas
- stakingsrecht
- stakingsverbod
- werkstaking
DescendantsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
staking
- Alternative form of stakyng