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rattoon

[ ra-toon ]

noun

  1. a variant of ratoon.


rattoon

/ ræˈtuːn /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of ratoon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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We were now in the foothills of the Rattoon Mountains, and the bluff we were on was very steep.

The joints of the cane, being cut and laid horizontally in furrows, which are then covered over, spring up in a crop which comes to maturity in about a year; and when this is cut, the roots rattoon, or send up shoots for five or six years in succession.

Associated word: pegology. springboard, n. batule, batule board. springy, a. elastic, resilient, rebounding, recoiling; spongy, yielding, queachy. sprinkle, v. scatter, strew; besprinkle, bedew, asperse. sprinkling, n. aspersion, besprinkling. sprinter, n. runner. sprite, n. elf, goblin, pixy, fay, specter, phantom, ghost. sprout, v. germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, grow, vegetate; branch, ramify; tiller. sprout, n. shoot, tiller, chit, sucker, scion; aerospire, plumule; rattoon. sprouting, n. germination. spruce, a. natty, jaunty, neat, finical, trim. spry, a. agile, nimble, quick, brisk, sprightly, alert. spunk, n. touchwood, punk, amadou. spunk, n.

Then when the rains returned new shoots, "rattoons," would sprout from the old roots to yield a second though diminished harvest in the following spring, and so on for several years more until the rattoon or "stubble" yield became too small to be worth while.

We were now in the foot-hills of the Rattoon Mountains, and the bluff we were on was very steep.

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