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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Snakehead

· Snake·head · IPA
01 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…
  1. 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. 2.
    The turtlehead.(Bot.)