Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ratoon . - noun Same as
ratan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See
plant-cane . - intransitive verb To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
ratoon .
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Examples
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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.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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It belongs rather to the second or third rattoon-crop, which, has sprung up under the influence of foreign stimuli.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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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.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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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.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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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.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 07: August/September 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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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.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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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.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1660 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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