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ringhals|ˈrɪŋhɑːls|
Also rinkhals.
[ad. Afrikaans rinkhals, f. ring ring + hals neck.]
A large venomous spitting cobra, Hemachatus hæmachatus, of the family Elapidæ, found in southern Africa, and distinguished by a white ring or two across the neck of an otherwise brown or black skin. Also attrib.
1793tr. C. P. Thunberg's Trav. Europe, Afr. & Asia I. 208 A colonist had been bitten in the foot some time before by a serpent of the species called Ringhals (or Ring-neck). 1835J. W. D. Moodie Ten Years S. Afr. I. xv. 316 The puff-adder, the ring-hals, and the berg-adder, are very poisonous and very numerous. 1864T. Baines Explor. S.-W. Afr. xiv. 449, I think the species is called ‘ring hals’ (or ringed throat) in the Colony. 1906Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 4/1 A Spurred Chameleon, a small Monitor, and a couple of Ring-hals snakes. 1925Other Lands July 44/2 They pointed to the half-open door, where she saw uncoiling itself a large ringhals. 1931, etc. [see cobra]. 1939S. Cloete Watch for Dawn v. 62 With the bite of a mamba or a ringhals the heart sometimes beat even after life had gone. 1947Cape Argus 29 Nov. (Mag. Section) 1/3 Cobras, like the ringhals and indeed all other snakes make for cover when they feel the approach of some intruder. 1956A. G. McRae Hill called Grazing vi. 47 The six-foot-long Rinkhals cobra, reared above its coils, hood flattened and tiny, evil head weaving. 1972L. van der Post Story like Wind ix. 292 She..saw, sitting upright on its tail, black as ebony and shining as with oil, a seven-foot rinkhals cobra. |