Term: stake: instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: load-shedding: cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply → 0
Candidate hypernym: diner: a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) → 0
Candidate hypernym: knee jerk: a reflex extension of the leg resulting from a sharp tap on the patellar tendon → 0
Candidate hypernym: asphodeline: genus of rhizomatous perennial or biennial herbs with numerous sometimes fragrant flowers in long cylindrical racemes; Mediterranean region to Caucasus; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: sheepshearing: the time or season when sheep are sheared → 0
Candidate hypernym: ancient pine: small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops → 0
Candidate hypernym: toss: an abrupt movement → 0
Candidate hypernym: cookie jar: a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bennet: avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: lens: (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood → 0