| snakehead | 1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car. 2. <botany> The turtlehead. The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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