Crossword clues for rattoon
rattoon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rattoon \Rat*toon"\ (r[a^]t*t[=oo]n"), n. [Sp. reto[~n]o.] One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.
Rattoon \Rat*toon"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rattooned (-t[=oo]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rattooning.] [Cf. Sp. reto[~n]ar.] To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.
Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of ratoon English)
Usage examples of "rattoon".
Jasper Edmunds, the ungregarious, had been suddenly snuffed out in a laboratory explosion, shortly after coming on to the chemical engineering staff at the big glass works in Rattoon, there were very few to be inquisitive about the future plans of his widow when she departed a month later for Waterloo.
And after that Rattoon, a nervous and noisy town of rapidly shifting population, quickly resumed its former contour almost as if the Edmundses had never lived there at all.
Almost everywhere on the island of Hawaii sugar-cane matures in twelve months, both rattoons and plant, and although it ought to be taken off as soon as it tassels, no doubt, it is not absolutely necessary to do it until about four months afterward.