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plumbing snake
noun
Synonym of plumber's snake
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The teenage girls could barely hear me -- and I could barely hear their questions -- over the screaming roar of the motorized plumbing snake that the county workers insisted they needed to run through the classroom drain the entire hour that I was trying to speak to a class at the Girls Rehabilitation Facility.
Fish out other grime with a plumbing snake.
If the drain isn't free from the nasty clog, use a plumbing snake.
If you do find a large buildup in the middle, you can use a plumbing snake to pull it out.
Insert a plumbing snake into the drain and twist it through the pipes to pull out clumps of grime that lie further down.
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Landlords took the side streets, typically not in their Saab or Audi but in their "rent collector," some oil-leaking, rusted-out van or truck that hauled around extension cords, ladders, maybe a loaded pistol, plumbing snakes, toolboxes, a can of Mace, and other necessities.
We actually have a video of him using a snake plumbing tool to unclog my grandparents' toilet in Texas.
Next, the so-called "balneological" section shows "nude ladies," in Clemens's words, in pools of liquid, which are connected to one another via a strange system of tubular plumbing that often snakes around whole pages of text.
They finally landed in Rex's Appalachian hometown, Welch, W.Va., in a three-room house without plumbing or heat, infested with snakes and rats.
Now, he says, spring has sprung so early that he's already seen A) a Bull Snake, B) flowering wild plumb trees and lilac bushes, and C) no snow when there's usually "six to eight inches of" it.
He bought the pipe at a plumbing supply store, then connected soaker hoses to snake through the woodland garden and his long mixed border.
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