snake Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
    ophidian; serpent.
  2. noun a deceitful or treacherous person
    snake in the grass.
  3. noun a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
    Snake River.
  4. noun a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
    Hydra.
  5. noun something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
  6. verb move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
  7. verb form a snake-like pattern
    • The river snakes through the valley
  8. verb move along a winding path
    • The army snaked through the jungle

WordNet

Snake noun
Etymology
AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel. snakr, snkr, Dan. snog, Sw. snok; of uncertain origin.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent. ✍ Snakes are abundant in all warm countries, and much the larger number are harmless to man.
Snake transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Snaked ; present participle & verbal noun Snaking
Definitions
  1. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out. Colloq. U.S. Bartlett.
  2. (Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
Snake intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To crawl like a snake.

Webster 1913