staking

noun

1. An act of stabbing with a stake.

   Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism.

Where it comes from

From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake + -ing.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry staking (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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