Chewed on either end into three-pointed stakes, the sticks are saplings buried underwater by beavers in summer for a winter meal.

Wards are combined into stakes, where presidents preside.

Somehow, the wood had been soaked and curved, the ends sharpened into ground-penetrating stakes.

Parisella pioneered the use of foreign horses, mostly from Canada and turning them into stakes winners.

Russian banks, which came into big stakes in most of the oil companies when the companies defaulted on loans, are largely unable to help.

Its capital is divided into stakes (quote) which can be bought or sold just by notarial act.

It also converted large ownership positions in six hotels into small passive stakes, using an accounting loophole.

The deep ditch that would encircle her camp was already half dug, and the woods were full of Unsullied lopping branches off birch trees to sharpen into stakes.

There they cut and sharpened the ash and oak poles into spiked stakes and hardened the points over the fire.

But it has managed to take further advantage of the loophole by converting big ownership positions in six other hotels into small passive stakes.