stake-driver

English

Etymology

stake + driver; so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud.

Noun

stake-driver (plural stake-drivers)

  1. A bird, the American bittern.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stake-driver in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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