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Definition of Rattooned
1. rattoon [v] - See also: rattoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattooned
Literary usage of Rattooned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hesperos: Or, Travels in the West by Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte) (1850)
"There are large herds of cattle and droves of horses on the * It is generally
considered necessary to plant fresh canes after they have rattooned (sprung ..."
2. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1905)
"If well cultivated this plant can be rattooned—allowed to grow up from the old
stools without replanting—indefinitely. Good soil is not rapidly exhausted, ..."
3. Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly, Commanded by Captain F.P by Joseph Bette Jukes (1847)
"As canes are now never rattooned, they are invariably pulled up by the roots,
which are merely cleaned with a knife. The cultivation of sugar and coffee are ..."
4. The Practical Sugar Planter: A Complete Account of the Cultivation and by Leonard Wray (1848)
"... and such I have known (from the estate book) to have rattooned for twenty years !
Yet, in consequence of its being a mountainous estate, ..."
5. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British by Great Britain Committee on Slavery (1833)
"Was it rattooned ?—No,I rather think it was not; because it was very fine land,
and the man who showed it me told me that the canes had been there a long ..."
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