Definition of Stake driver

1. Noun. A kind of bittern.

Exact synonyms: American Bittern, Botaurus Lentiginosus
Generic synonyms: Bittern
Group relationships: Botaurus, Genus Botaurus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stake Driver

stairway
stairways
stairwell
stairwells
stairwise
staisfise
staith
staithe
staithes
staithman
staithmen
staiths
stake
stake-driver
stake a claim
stake driver (current term)
stake of Zion
stake out
stake race
stakebuilding
staked
staked out
stakehead
stakeheads
stakeholder
stakeholder society
stakeholders
stakeholdership
stakeholderships
stakeholding

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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