[? variant of STAKE sb.1]

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  1.  A stake, pile. (Cf. STAG v.2) dial.

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1881.  Leicestersh. Gloss., Stag, var. pron. of ‘stake.’

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1887.  Jamieson’s Sc. Dict., Suppl. 227/1. Stag, a stake, pile, fixed or for fixing in the ground. West of S., Aberd[een].

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  † 2.  A tinman’s tool = STAKE sb.1 5 a.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. xxii. (Roxb.), 269/2. He beareth Azure, a Small Stag, or a Round Stag, Argent. This … is for the raiseing of round filletts in Tyn for the Adornement of their Works. The second thing in this square is called a Creesing Stag.

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