rattoon

American  

[ra-toon] / ræˈtun /

noun

1. a variant of ratoon.

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rattoon British  

/ ræˈtuːn /

noun

1. a variant spelling of ratoon

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Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg