Definition of "stake-driver" []

• 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. (noun)

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• "There was a surly stake-driver by the name of Shurd who was lazy and otherwise offensive among hard - working men."
• "He said ke-whack after his words because that is the polite thing to do among the stake-driver fairies."
• "And Bobby looked after him until he saw the stake-driver, shorn of his fine clothes, sweep over his head and go flying up the creek again."