a children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it

a root / the source; the root / nature; the character one has by birth

a tree; more specifically, a living tree / the bent and gnarled trunk or roots of an old tree / wood, lumber / something made of wood / in ancient China, a wooden musical instrument

to stir, shake, shift, swing / (as of a machine or device) to operate, run, go, work / (as of a person or group) to work, go into action / (emotionally) to be moved, touched, influenced

to move

(obsolete) to move

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

root / base, foundation