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Snail and Escargot Definitions

Snail

Any of numerous aquatic or terrestrial gastropod mollusks that typically have a spirally coiled shell, retractile foot, and distinct head.

Escargot

An edible snail, especially one prepared as an appetizer or entrée.

Snail

A slow-moving, lazy, or sluggish person.

Escargot

(uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.

Snail

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
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Escargot

(countable) A snail (often Helix pomatia) used in preparation of that dish.

Snail

A slow person; a sluggard.

Escargot

Any edible terrestrial snail prepared as food; as a dish, it is usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic.

Snail

(engineering) 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.

Escargot

Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
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Snail

A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

Snail

The pod of the snail clover.

Snail

(railroading) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

Snail

To move or travel very slowly.

Snail

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidæ. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.

Snail

Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

Snail

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.

Snail

A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.

Snail

The pod of the sanil clover.

Snail

Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

Snail

Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

Snail

Gather snails;
We went snailing in the summer

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