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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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