Rattoon

Word RATTOON
Character 7
Hyphenation rat toon
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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. ❋ Various (N/A)

It belongs rather to the second or third rattoon-crop, which, has sprung up under the influence of foreign stimuli. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)

I met with Mr. Hawly, who was removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great while, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. Hawly did give me a little black rattoon, -- [Probably an Indian rattan cane.] -- painted and gilt. ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

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. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

I met with Mr. Hawly, who was removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great while, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. Hawly did give me a little black rattoon, ” [Probably an Indian rattan cane.] ” painted and gilt. ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1660)

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