Crossword clues for blacksnake
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Black snake \Black" snake`\ (sn[=a]k) or Blacksnake \Black"snake\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
Note: The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several relatively harmless North American snakes. 2 (context US English) A long, tapering whip.
WordNet
n. large harmless shiny black North American snake [syn: black rat snake, pilot blacksnake, mountain blacksnake, Elaphe obsoleta]
blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet [syn: black racer, Coluber constrictor]
Wikipedia
Black Snake, aka She-me-ne-to or Shemeneto, was the principal war chief of the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans during the American War for Independence. He was a member of the Kispoko sept or clan of the Shawnee and assumed the title of War Chief upon the death of Pucksinwah, the father of Tecumseh. He was a leader in the defeat of Colonel William Crawford's army during the Crawford expedition of 1782. He was a feared leader of Shawnee war parties for many years.
Category:Indigenous military personnel of the Americas Category:Native American leaders
Usage examples of "blacksnake".
She passed Matilda, the enormous blacksnake, curled up in her hole in a hay bale.
Like Mark, she carried her bedroll on her Cheyenne roll saddle but instead of a Manilla rope had her blacksnake whip strapped to its horn.
Morning side, not far from Path, with walls of wood and a dirt floor covered with rugs, and many beetles and once a blacksnake that stayed nine days.
The cats began to yowl with excitement, the calico leaping back and forth, the black switching his tail like a blacksnake whip.
As he dismantled the hive a blacksnake approached him, but he was able to grab its tail and crack it like a whip, easily smashing its head on a branch.
The new Elin Donnelly gawked at everything-desk workers in their open-air offices, a blacksnake sunning itself by the path, the stone stairs cut into the terrace walls.
Suddenly, from the bottom of his pant leg, a blacksnake slithered out and raced across the floor.
The markings on its back had all run together until it was black as a blacksnake, almost.
The pavement uncoiled in front of the truck like a lazy blacksnake, striped with the shadows of trees cast by the setting sun.
Like most farmers, Harry knew that her best friends apart from the domesticated animals were owls, blacksnakes, bats, honeybees, praying mantises, most spiders, swallowtails, and purple martins.
They were singing in the blacksnakes, the free woman of color and the slave woman with the withered arm.
She told pretty Marie Laveau that the words did not matter, only the tunes and the beats, and there, singing and tapping in the blacksnakes, in the swamp, she has an odd vision.
Long blacksnakes, slithering fast, with their heads raised a foot or two above the floor of the storm drain.
And there were rattlers, their flat and evil heads held lower than those of the longer blacksnakes, but moving just as fast and just as sinuously, swarming with mysterious purpose toward a dark and equally mysterious destination.
Almanzo could crack it almost as loudly as Father cracked a blacksnake whip.