snake Definition

snake
noun

1. Any one of numerous species of a carnivorous reptile which has a long narrow body covered with scaly skin, and a forked tongue, and that differs from lizards in that it lacks limbs, moveable eyelids or visible ears.
2. Any long and flexible or winding thing or shape.
3. A snake in the grass.
4. formerly
The band within which the relative values of certain EC currencies were allowed to float.

verb

intr
snaked, snaking
1. To move windingly or follow a winding course.

Example: The river snakes towards the sea

Derivative: snakelike
adj

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon snaca.