Sentence:  You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and <WSD>stake</WSD> him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To pierce or wound with a stake.