staking
An act of stabbing with a stake.
Noun
- An act of stabbing with a stake.
- 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...
Origin
From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake + -ing.
Forms
Verb
- present participle and gerund of stake
Origin
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.