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What is burn at the stake?

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To be "Burnt at the Stake" is to be tied to a piece of wood pounded in the ground (A "Stake") and to be lit on fire.

Burning at the stake is is when someone is tied to a wooden stake and the stake is set on fire. You burn to death.

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