What is "snakebit"

Usage examples of "snakebit".

They had but two animals and one of these had been snakebit in the desert and this thing now stood in the compound with its head enormously swollen and grotesque like some fabled equine idea­tion out of an Attic tragedy.

The water stood in pools in the courtyard and the snakebit horse lay dead with its shape­less head stretched in the mud and the other animals had gathered in the northeast corner under the tower and stood facing the wall.

Then, a week or so ago, the same woman they had seen here came in, bringing a snakebit man.

Denny's hand jerked back as if snakebit while his brain did a slow cartwheel, trying to interpret what he was seeing by the flashlight's weirdifying glare.

We're fixin to get the horses snakebit sure as the world, said Rawlins.

Old man died of a fever, city boy got snakebit taking a shit, and one fool tried to kill me in my sleep and got a red smile for his trouble.