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little whip-snake
See snake
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Snake
·vi To crawl like a snake.
II. Snake ·vt To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole;
— often with out...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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snake
n.
The Australian land snakes belongprincipally to the four families, Typhlopidae, Boidae, Colubrid...
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to snake
To crawl like a snake. A common expression at the West. A fine example of the use of this term is gi...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Whip
·vt The long pennant. ·see Pennant (a).
II. Whip ·vt To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
III....
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whip
I.
A single rope rove through a single block to hoist in light articles. Where greater and steadie...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whip upon whip
A sort of easy purchase, much used in colliers. It consists of one whip applied to the falls of anot...
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Black snake
·noun ·Alt. of <<Blacksnake>>.
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Coachwhip snake
·- A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
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Congo snake
·- An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. ·see <<A...
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Glass-snake
·noun A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States;
— so called f...
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Sea snake
·- Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened ...
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Water snake
·- Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsidae, all of which are aquatic in their habits.
II. ...
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black-snake
See under snake.
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brown snake
n. See under snake.
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carpet-snake
n.
a large Australian snake witha variegated skin, Python variegata, Gray. InWhitworth's `Anglo-Ind...
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diamond snake
n.
In Queensland and New SouthWales, Pythonon spilotes, Lacep.; in Tasmania, Hoplocephalus superhus...
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tiger-snake
n. See under snake.
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worm-snake
n.
See under snake.
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to snake out
To drag out; to haul out, as a snake from its hole. A farmer in clearing land, attaches a chain to a...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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snake-head
An object of dread to travellers on railways. The end of an iron rail, which sometimes is thrown up ...
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snake-pieces
See pointers.
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Sea whip
·- A gorgonian having a simple stem.
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Whip-shaped
·adj Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or s...
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whip jacks
The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to whip off
To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stock-whip
n.
whip for driving cattle.See quotations.
1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100:
«The s...
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whip-bird
n.
See coach-whip bird.
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whip-stick
n.
variety of dwarf Eucalypt; one of the Mallees; forming thick scrub.
1874. M. C., `Explorers,' p...
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
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penny-whip
very small beer. Lane, a penny per quart.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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coach-whip
The pendant.
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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whip-staff
See whipII
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whip-jack
An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.)
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whip-ray
A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...
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whip-saw
The largest of that class of useful instruments, being that generally used at the saw-pit.
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green tree-snake
n.
See under snake.
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white-lipped snake
n.
See under snake.
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Whip-poor-will
·noun An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker;
— so called ...
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Whip-tom-kelly
·noun A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida;
— called also black-whisker...
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to whip the cock
A piece of sport practised at wakes, horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied or ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whip-belly vengeance
or pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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coach-whip bird
n.
Psophodes crepitans,V. and H. (see Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 15);Black-throate...
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two-hooded furina-snake
See under snake.
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snake-boat of cochin
See pamban manche
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knight of the whip
A coachman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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black-and-white ringed snake
See under snake.
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