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meadow hen † N.B. 
n. the American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.
See also: marsh bittern
- 1896 (n.d.) Ditches, dikes, and fences were of small concern to me, and I went craning it over the country like a huge meadow-hen.
- 1956 American Bittern [is also called] meadow hen (. . . in a country where a marsh is a meadow, N.B.). . . .
- 1896 (n.d.) Ditches, dikes, and fences were of small concern to me, and I went craning it over the country like a huge meadow-hen.