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chain stake 
in trapping, the stake to which the chain of a trap is secured.
- 1933 This [trap] he unsets and hangs up on its chain stake, for he is "striking up" his path. . . .
- 1933 This [trap] he unsets and hangs up on its chain stake, for he is "striking up" his path. . . .