hoop snake
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Noun (1)
- any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoopType of colubrid snake, colubrid
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Hoop snake
Zoology, a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); — so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity.
From the entry Hoop.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54