Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
stake (pointed stick).
Etymologies
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stake + -like
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Examples
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It would be a sad fate for food writing if the same reader can’t be expected to enjoy both seeing an image of a whole lamb on a stakelike spit on one page, and reading about the intricacies of the taste of burnt tomatoes on another.
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