Snakehead

[sneikhed]

Definition

(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.

(n.) The turtlehead.

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

Typist: Paul