snail

- ilaz (Proto-Germanic)

*snag- (Proto-Germanic)

*snagilaz (Proto-Germanic)

Snail.

snæġel (Old English)

snaile (Middle English)

snail (English)

(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.. (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.. (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or [...]