To put down or deposit as a wager; to stake, bet, or wager (a sum, one's head, life, etc.). Also to lay a wager.

transitive. To wager, stake (e.g. money, one's life, one's head). Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern.

transitive. To put down (money) as a wager or a payment; †to pay (a debt).

To put (a sum) down as a stake; to stake, wager. Also figurative. Obsolete or archaic.

transitive. To stake, bet. Obsolete.

esp. To agree to forfeit in some contingency; to stake, wager, bet. Obsolete.

To offer as a wager; to wager, bet, ‘lay’.

transitive. To bet, to stake.

transitive. to stake down: to deposit (a sum of money) as a wager or stake on the result of a game or contest. Also absol.

To put at hazard (a sum of money, an article of value, etc.) upon the cast of dice, the result of a competition or game, the event of a contingency…

To stake, wager; to risk, bet. Obsolete or archaic.

transitive. To stake or wager (a sum of money, etc.) in support of an affirmation or on the issue of a forecast.

transitive. To risk, venture, stake, wager (an amount of money). Chiefly in various card games or gambling contexts. Also intransitive with…

transitive. To stake or hazard (something of value) on the issue of an uncertain event or on some question to be decided, to bet.

transitive and intransitive. To bet, wager. Obsolete.

transitive. To place or set upon something; to impose.

colloquial. transitive. To invest or stake (money) in a risky or highly speculative undertaking; to bet, wager. Also: to lay or make a (bet). Also…

Horse Racing. transitive. To bet (a sum of money) on a race. Obsolete.

transitive. To bet, wager (a sum of money, or other stake). Also more generally: to expose (something valuable) to risk or danger in the hope of…

transitive. Betting. To use (an original stake and the winnings from a previous bet) as a stake on a further bet, or series of cumulative bets. Also…

transitive. To put up (an amount) as an ante before play begins. Also figurative: to bet, stake; (also) to pay out, hand over (now rare except in…

transitive. To stake or bet (a sum of money); to place (a bet). Originally in to put on the pot (also to put the pot on): (slang) to stake a large…

colloquial. transitive. To bet or speculate (a sum of money).