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Word: tecker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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First to come at the small, green, succulent frog was a four-foot schaapstecker (sheepsticker) snake. As the frog began disappearing head first down the schaapstecker's narrow gullet, a puffy night adder moved near. Seeing the adder, the schaap-tecker gulped hard to get its meal down safely; but the quick adder got hold of the frog's right hind leg, started swallowing the prize from that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Goodnight Buffaloes | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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