Only when written 株
Archaic abbreviation of 株 (くいぜ). Refers to a tree stump. In modern Japanese, 切り株 or 株 (かぶ) is used instead.
See also: 株 (くいぜ)
They drove stakes into the ground to put up a fence.
We drove stakes along the garden boundary.
Many piles are lined up at the construction site.
In old documents, a tree stump is sometimes written as くい.
They set up a stake to mark the boundary line.
Since the construction was finished, they pulled out the stakes.
切り株 is the standard modern word for a tree stump, while 杭 in this sense is an archaic, now rarely used abbreviation.
杭's archaic 'stump' sense historically derives from 株 (くいぜ), but in modern Japanese 株 is read かぶ and means 'stump,' 'stock,' or 'share,' not 杭.
杖 is a stick used for walking support, whereas 杭 is a stake driven into the ground to mark or secure something.
杭 (a stake or post driven into the ground) shares the reading くい with 食い but is an unrelated concrete object, not an act of eating.
Used because 杭 (stakes/piles) are long, thin objects, which are naturally counted with 本.
Standard kanji for stake, post, or pile. High-frequency news and high priority.
Rare kanji variant for stake or post, mostly in older texts.
Archaic kanji for stump, now normally read かぶ for 'stump' or 'stock'.
The kanji 杭 is a phono-semantic compound with 木 (tree/wood) and 亢 (high/raise), originally referring to a wooden stake or post. The reading くい is native Japanese. The archaic stump sense is an abbreviation of くいぜ (株).