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.