Snake"head` (?), n.
1.
A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
2. Bot. (a)
The turtlehead.
(b)
The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
© Webster 1913.