Snail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SNAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to move slowly
• gather snails
• move slowly
NOUN:
• a mollusc with a single spiral shell into which the whole body can be withdrawn.
• used in reference to something very slow
• slow-moving mollusc with a spiral shell
• Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
• Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
• Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
• 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.
• A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
• The pod of the sanil clover.
• freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
• edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

Words related to SNAIL

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Words that contain SNAIL

snails6 snaily9 snailed8 snailery11 snailier8 snailing9 snailfish15 snailiest9 snaillike13 snaileries10 snailfishes17

How to use SNAIL in a sentence

• She must be an abandoned woman, who will not shrink as a snail into its shell at a gross and sudden attempt.
• The necessity for defending himself makes him seek a snail shell in order to protect the weak part of his organism.
• And is not the young Roumanian like a snail in his shell, for it is as much as he can do to get out of it? We reach Khodjend about three in the afternoon.
• Snail mail Mail that comes through a slot in your front door or a box mounted outside your house.
• LITTLE SNAIL I saw a little snail Come down the garden walk.
• Instantly, the snail drew in his head, curled up in his shell, and left the lazy man sitting in a heap on the ground! The clock struck twice.
• It was nearer now, wheeling closer and closer to Reynolds as he clung like a snail to the side of the hill.
• A snail, making a night-journey across the floor, found in its path a diamond, sparkling with a light of its own.
• The desert snail at once awoke and found himself famous.
• The clever little Snail had taken only nine hours to come down from the fourth story to the house-door.
• A boy working for a farmer was asked by his employer if he ever saw a snail.
• He looks like a snail with his house upon his back, or the Spirit of the Militia with a natural snapsack, and may serve both for tinker and budget too.
• There had been heavy rain in the night, and on the lawn was a thrush breaking his way into the shell of a snail.
• I found a snail the other day in my wardrobe which had been journeying slowly but effectively across some favorite silken skirts.
• A flood swept the snail down to the Missouri and left him high and dry on the bank, where the sun ripened him into a man.
• They led a very retired and happy life and, as they had no children, they had adopted a little common snail which they brought up as their own child.
• But the little thing would not grow, for he was only a common snail, although the mother declared that he was getting too large for his shell.
• The young Snail pair now ruled in the forest, and had a large family.
• Small birds, and even the humble snail, which would scarcely be credited with any useful function, are also very serviceable in the same direction.
• In some cases, as in the snail, the union of two individuals is usually necessary, though each possesses both kinds of organs.
• According to a gipsy, the common English Snail is quite as good to be eaten, and quite as beneficial as an Apple Snail, but there is less of him.
• It is probable, I think, that we shall set about building up a new body to inhabit at once, as a snail builds its shell.
• All morning, at the pace of a snail it seemed, we chopped and lifted and hauled our way along that old Crook road.
• So I crept, crept, like a snail through the days Of my life.

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