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n. - East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Stewmac sell Waverly guitar machines and knobs, but unfortunately not snakewood mandolin knobs.
  • Now imagine the look of it with ebony knobs, or even better, snakewood, which has that "tortoise" look to it.
  • So he swung round his cane of heavy snakewood at the cow, and struck her poor horns so sharply that her head went round.
  • "In this one piece, I've got burl, kingwood, three different ebonies, snakewood, and pink ivory - two of the rarest woods in the world."
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