snickersnee

“It is a good deal like a mole: You know the mole is there; you see where he has made the hole and the hump in the ground where he has crawled; but if you jab a ‘snickersnee’ into the hole, he may not be there.”

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Or if you'd come on the scene a minute later, even ... oh, aye, we had the lock picked and I was about to go aloft when you arrived with your little snickersnee, curse you, and then that damned sergeant and his sentries, and we had to shoot our way clear, and lost two good men - one of 'em your pal Gunther, you'll be desolated to learn.

Watershed 2010

“It is a good deal like a mole: You know the mole is there; you see where he has made the hole and the hump in the ground where he has crawled; but if you jab a ‘snickersnee’ into the hole, he may not be there.”

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

It was a wicked-looking blue chicken with a third eye bursting through its forehead—a chicken with twelve claws, all of which clutched instruments of death: daggers, swords, deep-fry baskets, meat tenderizers, and a snickersnee.

Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

It was a wicked-looking blue chicken with a third eye bursting through its forehead—a chicken with twelve claws, all of which clutched instruments of death: daggers, swords, deep-fry baskets, meat tenderizers, and a snickersnee.

Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

It was a wicked-looking blue chicken with a third eye bursting through its forehead—a chicken with twelve claws, all of which clutched instruments of death: daggers, swords, deep-fry baskets, meat tenderizers, and a snickersnee.

Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

It was a wicked-looking blue chicken with a third eye bursting through its forehead—a chicken with twelve claws, all of which clutched instruments of death: daggers, swords, deep-fry baskets, meat tenderizers, and a snickersnee.

Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

Otto, indeed, had convulsively grasped his snickersnee, with intent to plunge it into the heart of the Rowski; but his politer feelings overcame him.

Burlesques 2006

Otto, indeed, had convulsively grasped his snickersnee, with intent to plunge it into the heart of the Rowski; but his politer feelings overcame him.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

The scratchy snickersnee swoosh produced by the swift separation of metal teeth was a sound more ominous to both men than any hiss or shriek or howl that might emanate from the unknown forest.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000