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Definition of Snaked
1. snake [v] - See also: snake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snaked
Literary usage of Snaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1848 We skinned [the cow] and snaked her out of the barn upon the snow.—Boston
Daily Advertiser, March (Bartlett). 1854 Afore a hog knew what he was abaout, ..."
2. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion by Richard Miller Devens (1884)
"Where were you wounded ? " " Pittsburg Landing, Sir." "What part of the battle ?"
" Second fire of the last round, Sir." snaked away and ..."
3. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"The upper seizing must also be snaked, Fig. 150. ... Pointing a Large Hawser,
Clap on a whipping of three-yarn nettle-stuff, snaked. Open out the strands, ..."
4. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"14. I went down again, and found the cow as dead as a herrin'. We skinned her,
and snaked her out of the barn upon the snow. ..."
5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"The ends may be whipped and snaked with twine, or the nettles hitched over the
filling, ... Clap on a whipping of three-yarn nettle-stuff, snaked. ..."
6. The Wabash: Or, Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior by John Richard Beste (1855)
"We were a good deal shaken, though not "snaked" as sometimes happens; when the iron
... We were not snaked; and we consoled ourselves for the jolting and ..."
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