What does "snake" mean?
Snake: To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.
Additional senses
- 2.(Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- 3.To crawl like a snake.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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