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▪ I. snaking, vbl. n.|ˈsneɪkɪŋ|
[f. snake n. or v.1]
1. Naut. (See quots. and snake v.1 1 b.)
1815Burney Falconer's Dict. Marine 487/1 Snaking..is the act of winding small ropes spirally round a large one,..and is frequently termed Worming. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 635 Snaking, the passing of small stuff across a seizing, with marline hitches at the outer turns. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2229/1 Snaking,..stoppers passed alternately from one stay or rope to another throughout their length in a parallel direction.
2. A snake-like curl or coil.
1888Clark Russell Death Ship xli, Heights of the sea..spouting their prodigious lengths alongside, sometimes tumbling in thunder upon her forward decks, sometimes curling in blown snakings ahead of her.
3. U.S. The action of dragging out.
1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 206/1 The snaking out of these logs is another source of casualty to the lumberman.
4. A rapid oscillation of an aircraft about a vertical axis; a similar motion of a caravan or trailer.
1945Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLIX. 463/2 There is a possibility of the aeroplane developing an undamped short period oscillation in which rapid movement of the rudder from side to side plays an essential part—the tail wagging the dog. Such an oscillation is known as ‘snaking’. 1949Aircraft Engin. Oct. 311/1 Snaking can be cured by sticking on strips to the trailing edge of the rudder. 1966Caravanning (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 11 Stabilisers have been devised to overcome any side movement or ‘snaking’ of the caravan in relation to the direction of the car. 1972Nature 18 Aug. 377/2 Detailed studies of gust effects, and of ‘snaking’.
▪ II. snaking, ppl. a.|ˈsneɪkɪŋ|
[Cf. snake v.1]
Winding, twisting, sinuous.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 81 The flowry Plains..Laced about with snaking silver brooks. 1615Crooke Body of Man 94 Wherein the snaking and snayling diuarications of the vessels do craule all ouer the belly. 1906Westm. Gaz. 5 June 2/1 From that height,..the city took an odd look, with its snaking quays and its many domed churches. |