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▸ noun: (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
▸ noun: The pod of the snail clover.
▸ noun: (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
▸ verb: To move or travel very slowly.
Similar:
escargot,
land snail,
gastropod,
snail king,
door snail,
nerite,
mesogastropod,
corillid,
elonid,
helicid,
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