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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of snake.

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Examples

  • "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing," he read aloud, but the rest of the e.e. cummings phrase snaked under my thigh, hidden.

    Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005

  • Naturally word snaked around the site huts that Marcellinus had been slaughtered in his bed.

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

  • The logs had to be "snaked" across the rough ground and down the mountain, and when the floor had been laid, and the location of the window decided upon, Robin planted morning-glory seeds where it was to be.

    The Master-Knot of Human Fate Ellis Meredith

  • Under the old methods, if the logs had to be "snaked" out, the loggers took the shortest cut, and if that cut led through a dense thicket of young trees, the logs were dragged through them, so that millions of young trees were destroyed each year by this recklessness alone.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • Used to prevent the wire round which it is "snaked" from becoming, in the event of its displacement, entangled with the propeller.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

  • Used to prevent the wire round which it is "snaked" from becoming, in the event of its displacement, entangled with the propeller.

    The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition 1919

  • Used to prevent the wire round which it is "snaked" from becoming, in the event of its displacement, entangled with the propeller.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1917

  • The ends are now whipped with twine or yarn and finally "snaked," which is done by taking the end under and over the outer turns of the seizing alternately.

    Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise 1912

  • They accordingly dismounted, and leaving their horses in a thick copse, "snaked" in the direction of a large Federal camp near at hand, taking advantage of every cover.

    The Romance of the Civil War 1903

  • Besides the regular trials of the march there were wagons to be "snaked" across the streams, tires to be reset and yokes to be mended at each

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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