1974A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiii. 223 The only other poisonous snake around here is the timber rattler.1950Chicago Tribune 16 Mar. ii. 12/2 With him to the zoo went five *timber rattlesnakes.1982J. S. Borthwick Case of Hook-Billed Kites (1983) xlviii. 171 He swept from ...