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Definition of Stake driver
1. Noun. A kind of bittern.
Generic synonyms: Bittern
Group relationships: Botaurus, Genus Botaurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stake Driver
Literary usage of Stake driver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1917)
"Note: Several harsh sounds and a note resembling the blow of a mallet in driving
a stake, hence its name stake driver. Season: Summer resident; May to ..."
2. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"Note: Several harsh sounds and a note resembling the blow of a mallet in driving
a stake, hence its name stake driver. Season: Summer resident; May to ..."
3. Birds that hunt and are hunted by Neltje Blanchan (1905)
""Many have heard the stake driver," says Hamilton Gibson, "but who shall locate
the stake ?" The same bird whose voice sounds like a stake being driven into ..."
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