Look up: staking

1. Staking
   Plants that grow tall with little stem support need to be staked. Perennials and tomatoes come to mind. Any means of support will work: canes, cages, wire loops, etc.
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2. Staking
   Supporting plants with canes or stakes
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3. Staking
   Mechanical softening of leather. Done by hand by pulling skins over a moon shaped knife, but mostly by machines of which tow types are common. The old 'grab' staker with crocodile jaws which come together at a point where the operator offers the hide or skin and pulls the leather away from him while...
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4. staking
   upright stick in a vehicle for load retention Category: Transport • putting stakes in the soil for supporting the vines Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a method of permanently fastening two pieces or parts together by causing plastic ...
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5. Staking
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stake
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6. Staking
   The practice of driving a stake, usually a sturdy piece of wood, into the ground close to a plant as a growing support
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7. Staking
   The practice of driving a stake into the ground next to a plant to use as
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8. Staking
   [manufacturing] Staking is the process of connecting two components by creating an interference fit between the two pieces. One workpiece has a hole in it while the other has a boss that fits within the hole. The boss is undersized so that it is a slip fit. A staking punch is then used to co...
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