[f. SNAKE sb. + -LING.] A young snake. (Cf. SNAKELET.)

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1868.  J. Fergusson, Tree & Serpent Worship, 38. There they laid their eggs and nursed their snakelings.

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1894.  Pop. Sci. Monthly, Nov., 78. In these little snakelings the instinct of self-defense was born.

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