staking

English

Etymology 1

From stake +‎ -ing.

Verb

staking

1. present participle of stake

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

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

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch staking. Equivalent to staak +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.kɪŋ/

Noun

staking (plural stakings, diminutive stakinkie)

1. strike (work stoppage)

   Daar is stakings in die mynbougebiede.

   There are strikes in the mining regions.

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.kɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sta‧king

Noun

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

Derived terms

• estafettestaking
• hongerstaking
• klimaatstaking
• leerlingenstaking
• spoorwegstaking
• stakingsbreker
• stakingsrecht
• werkstaking

Descendants

• Afrikaans: staking
• → West Frisian: staking

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Middle English

Noun

staking

1. Alternative form of stakyng