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Hangnail is London Cockney rhyming slang for a slow, dawdling person (snail).
Noun. A thin line of pubic hair extending from the pubic region to the navel.
Slug and snail is London Cockney rhyming slang for a finger or toe nail.
salt water snails or periwinkles
Noun. Post, surface mail. Jocular expression coined with the advent of the speedier and generally immediate email.
Style of shoe popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's that came to a sharp and violent point. This was supposed to be reminiscent of the type of pin used to extract fresh cooked winkles from their shells. The shoes constricted the toes and no doubt cause immense and lasting damage to young feet as they were most popular with teenage boys along with 'drainpipe trousers. (ed: for those inland, Winkles are a small edible shellfish - a salt water snail in fact. Traditionally they are boiled and served 'fresh' in the vicinity of the place they were caught.).
Postal mail; term developed with the advent of widespread use of e-mail. "Snail mail" gets its name because it is slower than e-mail, and snails are slow creatures; "I sent you the package via snail mail - ok?")
Aggressive, unfriendly, hostile. e.g. "Keep away from the neighbour's dog, he is real snaily!"
The original 'old fashioned' means of communicating before the internet took over. It involves making a hard copy of the communication, inserting it into a package (often referred to as an envelope) and paying someone to convey it to its destination. The organisation usually entrusted with this conveyance is known as a 'Post Office'. The name derives from the lack of speed in delivery.
Snail is slang for a slow driver.
Snail−mail is slang for post, mail.
to soak nets and seines or snails in tan made from rinds of trees; also to wound the skin by contact with an object, etc. (I barked my shin against the chair)
salt water snails or periwinkles
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A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
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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.
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Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.
interj.
God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body).
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A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
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The pod of the sanil clover.
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See Sea snail (a).
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Slow-moving, like a snail.
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A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
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Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
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Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
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A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
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A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
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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.
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In the manner of a snail; slowly.
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A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs.
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