Stake-driver

Stake´-driv`er

(~drīv`ẽr)

(Zool.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); - so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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American bittern
bittern
Botaurus
Botaurus lentiginosus
genus Botaurus
stake driver
Thunder pumper

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