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Snakehead

Definition: 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.

Snakehead

Definition: The turtlehead.

Snakehead

Definition: The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under
Guinea.