Definitions
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- adverb In the manner of a
snake ;serpentine , with twisting or wriggling motions.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then I squirmed out of my cramped bed and wrig - gled snakewise to the right; once behind brush, I got to my feet, my dart gun drawn.
Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965
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Sometimes it was so low that we had to go snakewise.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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He had invented a silent, gliding movement as he lay scheming -- by means of strong tufts of grass he meant to gradually pull his body, snakewise, little by little away from the open into the wood.
Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
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It comes out of the ground as two ivy trunks on opposite sides of the stoutest bole, but at a height of four feet from the surface the two join and ascend the tree as one round iron-coloured and iron-hard stem, which goes curving and winding snakewise among the branches as if with the object of roping them to save them from being torn off by the winds.
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"De Animalibus," a manuscript by the great medieval friar and scientist Albertus Magnus, lists 477 animals and classifies them by their means of getting around: on four legs, swimming, flying or snakewise.
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