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Stake-driver

Stake"-driv`er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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