log, stake, post
Latin word, found 117 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.73.3: Huc illi stipites demissi et ab infimo revincti, ne revelli possent, ab ramis eminebant.
Vergil, Aeneid 3.43: externum tulit, aut cruor hic de stipite manat.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.279: Ecce vetus calido versatus stipes aeno
All forms of stipes