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tater noun A potato.

1845 (in 1974 Harris High Times 46) The supper is made up by the fellers; every one fetches sumthin; sum a lick of meal, sum a middlin of bacon, sum a hen, sum a possum, sum a punkin, sum a grab of taters, or a pocket full of peas. 1937 Thornburgh Great Smoky Mts 132 Hit war cold that night and to keep 'em from freezin’ I planted the taters under a balsam tree. 1953 Hall Coll (Bryson City NC) [I] did some farming all the time [while running a store], raised my own corn, taters, meat, a cow, chickens. 1970 Burton-Manning Coll 94A She just planted ‘tatoes. 1975 GSMNP-75 We made corn and raised corn and taters and things like that. 2008 Rosie Hicks 1 Mama’d make a little, left a little hole when [she] buried the taters so she could reach in there and get the taters out.

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