staking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of stake

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.”