snail

Definitions

• Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
• (informal) A slow person; a sluggard.
• (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.
• (military) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
• The pod of the snail clover.