DCHP-3

snake

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

an Indian game played with a straight wooden rod having a weighted head resembling that of a snake, this rod being slid over a smooth field of snow or down specially constructed runways. [See picture at snowsnake.]

See: snowsnake (def. 1 picture)

Quotations

1966
The throwers . . . hold the snake in their right hand, take a run of 15 feet or so and launch the snake into the trough, which is from 10 to 18 inches deep.