Word Meanings - BRIDESTAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.

• Roundheaded
  Having a round head or top.
• Groundnut
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
• Roundhouse
  A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
• Stake-driver
  The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
• Groundsel
  An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
• Groundsill
  See Ground plate (a), under Ground
• Roundish
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
• Stakehead
  A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
• Groundwork
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
• Roundlet
  A little circle.
• Stakeholder
  The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
• Roundly
  In a round form or manner.
• Roundness
  The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.

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