snake
snake is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- actor
- addle
- adventurer
- alone
- and
- anvil
- archtraitor
- ass
- bad
- barrator
- battle
- betrayer
- bidder
- blackguard
- bungler
- bunko
- capper
- carpetbagger
- charlatan
- cheat
- clothing
- cockatrice
- collapse
- complete
- conjuror
- conspirator
- crimp
- deceive
- deceiver
- decoy
- devil
- dissembler
- down
- drawn
- drop
- duck
- empiric
- faker
- fall
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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