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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STAKE-DRIVER

STAKE-DRIVER Stake "-driv `er, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: 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.