snake

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous squamate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and flexible jaws.
• noun A treacherous person.
• noun A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains.
• intransitive verb To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.
• intransitive verb To pull with quick jerks.
• intransitive verb To move in a sinuous or gliding manner.
• intransitive verb To move with a sinuous motion.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To move or wind like a snake; serpentine; move spirally.
• To drag or haul, especially by a chain or rope fastened around one end of the object. as a log; hence, to pull forcibly; jerk: used generally with out or along.
• Nautical:
• To pass small stuff across the outer turns of (a seizing) by way of finish.
• To wind small stuff, as marline or spun-yarn, spirally round (a large rope) so that the spaces between the strands will be filled up; worm.
• To fasten (backstays) together by small ropes stretched from one to the other, so that if one backstay is shot away in action it may not fall on deck.
• noun A serpent; an ophidian; any member of the order Ophidia. See serpent and Qphidia.
• noun Specifically, the common British serpent Coluber or Tropidonotus natrix, or Xatrix torquata, a harmless ophidian of the family Colubridæ: distinguished from the adder or viper, a poisonous serpent of the same country.
• noun A lizard with rudimentary limbs or none, mistaken for a true snake: as, the Aberdeen snake (the blindworm or slow-worm); a glass-snake. See snake-lizard, and cuts under amphisbæna, blindworm, dart-snake, glass-snake, scheltopusik, and serpentiform.
• noun A snake-like amphibian: as, the Congo snake, the North American Amphiuma means, a urodele amphibian. See Amphiuma.
• noun A person having the character attributed to a snake; a treacherous person.
• noun In the seventeenth century, a long curl attached to the wig behind.
• noun The stem of a narghile.
• noun See snake-box.
• noun A form of receiving-instrument used in Wheat-stone's automatic telegraph.
• noun Same as green-snake.
• noun Same as garter-snake.
• noun The harlequin snake.
• noun See scarlet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb Colloq. U.S. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
• transitive verb (Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
• intransitive verb To crawl like a snake.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See ophidia, and serpent.
• noun etc. See under Blind, Garter, etc.
• noun (Zoöl.) a large African snake (Python Sebæ) used by the natives as a fetich.
• noun (Zoöl.) a common European columbrine snake (Tropidonotus natrix).
• noun (Zoöl.) The secretary bird.
• noun [U.S.] a worm fence (which see).
• noun (Zoöl.) any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Rhaphidia; -- so called because of their large head and elongated neck and prothorax.
• noun (Bot.) a cucurbitaceous plant (Trichosanthes anguina) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than that of the serpent cucumber.
• noun (Zoöl.) The chaparral cock.
• noun (Bot.) the common club moss (Lycopodium clavatum). See Lycopodium.
• noun (Bot.) the fruit of a sapindaceous tree (Ophiocaryon paradoxum) of Guiana, the embryo of which resembles a snake coiled up.
• noun (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees, especially those of the genus Dendrophis and allied genera.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
• noun A treacherous person.
• noun A tool for unclogging plumbing.