What does sand asp mean?

sand asp

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

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"a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell"
"the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,"
"For several days they roll around in style, and then the inevitable snafu strikes like a sand asp: it turns out the new Humvees are registered on the books of one of the other 425th teams, and even though the other guys aren’t using them they want them back:"

sand asps (plural)

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