(snāk) noun
1. An ophidian reptile (suborder Serpentes), having a greatly elongated, scaly body, no limbs, and a specialized swallowing apparatus. The bite of most snakes is non-venomous, but some have much enlarged fangs, connected with venom glands from which a deadly poison flows into the punctures they make. ♦ Collateral adjective: anguine.
2. A treacherous or insinuating person.
3. A flexible, resilient wire used to clean clogged drains. etc.
—v. snaked, snak·ing v.t. Colloq. To drag by seizing an end or limb and pulling forcibly or quickly; haul along the ground, as a log.
—v.i. To wind or move like a snake. [OE snaca]

(snāk) noun
A member of any of various Shoshonean tribes of North American Indians, but especially the Walpapi and Yahu-skin of eastern Oregon.