snail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
rail-transport
railways
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English snayl, snail, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,
Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.
Inflected forms:
form: snails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
pos: noun
examples: ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
gloss: A slow person; a sluggard.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
gloss: A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
pos: noun
gloss: A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The pod of the snail clover.
pos: noun
gloss: A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
pos: noun
gloss: To move or travel very slowly.
pos: verb
examples: The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.
Related words: heliciculture
slug
Derived words: achatine snail
African snail
agate snail
amber snail
ambersnail
apple snail
Australian snail
awl snail
Badwater snail
bonnet snail
boulder snail
bristle snail
brown-lipped snail
brown snail
bubble snail
Burgundy snail
carrier snail
Chinese hat snail
cinnamon snail
cone snail
decollate snail
dew snail
domed land snail
door snail
ear snail
edible snail
emerald green snail
Finger Snail
flying snail
garden snail
giant snail
glass snail
green snail
grove snail
harp snail
helmet snail
housesnail
Japanese snail
land snail
Lister's river snail
looping snail
microsnail
milk snail
moon snail
Moorean viviparous tree snail
mudsnail
mud snail
murex snail
mystery snail
Newcomb's snail
olive snail
palm-leaf snail
pebblesnail
Polynesian tree snail
pond snail
purple storm snail
rack and snail
ramshorn snail
river snail
rocksnail
Roman snail
scaly-foot snail
seasnail
sea snail
shoulderband snail
slow as a snail
slug snail
slugsnail
snailase
snailborne
snail butter
snail darter
snailery
snail fever
snailfish
snailflower
snailicide
snailish
snail king
snail kite
snailless
snaillike
snail mail
snail-mail
snail-sense feminism
snailshell
snail's pace
snail pace
snail-paced
snail syrup
snail trail
snail trefoil
snail vine
snail-wheel
snaily
Snark
strawberry snail
top snail
tulip snail
turban snail
Utah roundmouth snail
valve snail
violet snail
volcano snail
water snail
white-lipped snail
white snail
whorl snail
wing snail
wood snail
zombie snail
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