DCHP-1 Online

stake † 

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

  See also: grubstake ((n.)) (def. 3)  

  • 1887  And now he was trying to make a "stake," or a sum sufficient to take him back. . . .
  • 1912  (1913)  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. . . .