Category:Snakehead

Snake"head`, 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.