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Definition of Tater
1. Noun. An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland.
Generic synonyms: Starches, Solanaceous Vegetable, Root Vegetable
Specialized synonyms: Baked Potato, Chips, French Fries, French-fried Potatoes, Fries, Home Fries, Home-fried Potatoes, Mashed Potato, Uruguay Potato
Terms within: Jacket
Group relationships: Potato, Solanum Tuberosum, White Potato, White Potato Vine
Definition of Tater
1. Noun. (British US informal) A potato. ¹
2. Noun. (US baseball slang) A home run ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tater
1. a potato [n -S] - See also: potato
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tater
Literary usage of Tater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"The nearest approach to a bed tater had ever known was the bit of sacking she
slept on ... tater sometimes played with toys, and she once possessed a doll. ..."
2. Pieces People Ask For, Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic edited by George Melville Baker (1908)
"tater! tater! Best bread made by Nater 1 No baker alive could make a tater.
In Ireland, where earth is so fertile and turfy, They mispronounce tater by ..."
3. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"... dirty tater, and proceed as before with honer water without pearl-ash. If л
black, blue, or brown coat, dry 2 ounces of fuller's earth, »nd pour on it ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"One day I was roast in' of a tater in the ashes, when I observed Rough a-settin'
off by the door a-watchin' me out of the corner of his eye. ..."
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