noun
a kind of bittern
• Syn: ↑American bittern, ↑Botaurus lentiginosus
• Hypernyms: ↑bittern
• Member Holonyms: ↑Botaurus, ↑genus Botaurus
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nounEtymology: so called from the belief that one of its notes resembles the sound of driving a stake into mud
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stake driver,
U.S. the bittern, a small heron whose cry suggests the sound of a stake being driven into mud.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.