STAKE-DRIVER


Meaning of STAKE-DRIVER in English

( n. )

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.

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