more on pull up stakes

[Lynne Murphy]

In the Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, it says that
the stakes are boundary stakes, not tent stakes. No insight on the relation
to sticks, though.

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Linguistics and English Language
Arts B135
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com

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