Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An aquatic serpent like, or mistaken for, an adder.

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Examples

  • To be dismembered alive is certainly not an agreeable experience, and I suggest that you should observe how, for instance, a water-adder swallows a frog; how the poor creature, seized by the hind legs, gradually disappears down its throat, while its eyes project staring out of their sockets; how it does not cease struggling desperately even as it reaches the stomach.

    The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour 1861

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