Definitions for snail

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Spelling: [sneyl]

IPA: /sneɪl/

Snail is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in snail (ailns).

Definitions for snail

noun

1. any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
2. a slow or lazy person; sluggard.
3. Machinery. a cam having the form of a spiral.
4. Midwestern and Western U.S. a sweet roll in spiral form, especially a cinnamon roll or piece of Danish pastry.

Origin of snail

before 900; Middle English snail, snayl(e), Old English snegel; cognate with Low German snagel, German (dial.) Schnegel

Examples for snail

Then he sweeps them all together in one heap, along with snail shells and rush-seeds.

I have eaten nothing,” replied the man, “since I ceased to be a snail.

He went a snail's pace, and at last dismounted, and groped his way.

It proceeds at the trot where the hired carriages go at a snail's pace.

We had made the first part of our journey at a snail's pace.

Cochleatus is from cochlea, a snail, from resembling its shell.

Finally, in folk-lore the snail is an uncanny or demoniac being, because it has horns.

It seemed to me that something like a snail was on the outside of the window-pane.

I travel; but it seems to be like the snail, with my house upon my head.

The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.