Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. / (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.

To move or travel very slowly.

plural of snail

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of snail

(obsolete) An oath.

simple past tense and past participle of snail

present participle of snail

(retronym) Mail sent physically in the post, especially as compared to email.

Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.

a mechanism in a striking timepiece that allows the hands to be advanced without having to wait for it to strike