NOUN
- large harmless shiny black North American snake
- blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
How To Use blacksnake In A Sentence
- The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
- Then she laughed, and crouched, and picked up in her good hand a blacksnake as tall as a sapling and as thick as a ship's rope. AMERICAN GODS
- It seems once blacksnakes learn its easier to get baby birds, be it chickens or bluebirds, they don't try for mice any longer.
- blacksnake," and, with a low whistle, urged his animals, that bounded forward, snorting with fear as a crack of thunder followed, booming down the gorges with deafening echoes. The Shagganappi
- An animal control officer removed a healthy blacksnake found in the living room of a residence and returned it to the wild. Prince George's County Animal Watch
- An officer removed a healthy blacksnake and returned it to the wild. Prince George's County Animal Watch
- The rope, fast to the block and following it, lashed about like a blacksnake, and, though the block fell clear of Mr. Mellaire, the bight of the rope snatched off his cap. CHAPTER XLII
- Though I felt lucky to have blacksnakes around our barn and sheds to keep the mice in check, I just never could get as comfortable with any snakes as my younger son is.
- A humane society field agent was dispatched in response to a homeowner's call to the division about a large blacksnake in a bathroom. Montgomery County Animal Watch
- I told him, ‘No son, that's just an old blacksnake.’
