Snakehead

·noun The Turtlehead.

II. Snakehead ·noun The Guinea-hen flower. ·see Snake's-head, and under Guinea.

III. Snakehead ·noun 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.