SNAKEHEAD

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

The turtlehead.

3.
n.

The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.


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