Stake-driver

Stake´-driv`er

    (~drīv`ẽr)

n.

1.

(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.