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Snakehead   Listen
noun
Snakehead  n.  
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.
(Bot.)
(a)
The turtlehead.
(b)
The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.





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"Snakehead" Quotes from Famous Books



... owes its secret to the Bessemer steel rail. The fishplate instead of the frog, and the steel rail in place of the good old snakehead! "The song of the rail" died out to a low continuous hum when Carnegie began making steel rails and showed the section-hands how to bolt ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard


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