carpet snake
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carpet snake
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Born in Iran, Daliri studied sculpture in India before migrating to Australia, and has also created a giant carpet snake, which is a tourist attraction in Burdekin.
From The Guardian • May 26, 2020
Advancing cautiously along it, she came across a huge carpet snake coiled "all a same rope alonga boat."
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
We looked up, and saw the writhing twisting, coils of a huge carpet snake, which had wound its body round and round the bell-wire on top of the wall plate.
From Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Becke, Louis
Yubbah, carpet snake, as a kin has almost disappeared, only a few members remaining to claim Mungahran HAWK.
From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)
One of them thereupon climbed the tree, and soon a carpet snake, 14 feet 6 inches long and 12 inches in girth, was writhing on the ground.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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