stake †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the money or the means to obtain food and other necessaries for a certain period of time.

Quotations

1887

And now he was trying to make a "stake," or a sum sufficient to take him back. . . .

1912

Stake, the little pile of earnings which is due to the harvester, the lumberjack and others at the end of the season's work.

1966

They [loggers] seldom worked more than a few months in one place, just long enough to gather a stake, which they spent in a few days in town. . . .