[Cf. SNAKE v.1] Winding, twisting, sinuous.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. vii. 81. The flowry Plains … Laced about with snaking silver brooks.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 94. Wherein the snaking and snayling diuarications of the vessels do craule all ouer the belly.

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1906.  Westm. Gaz., 5 June, 2/1. From that height,… the city took an odd look, with its snaking quays and its many domed churches.

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