Usually means: Slow-moving mollusk with shell.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word snail:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. snail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snail: Merriam-Webster
  3. snail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snail: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snail: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snail, snail: Wordnik
  8. snail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snail: Wiktionary
  10. snail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snail: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Snail, snail: Dictionary.com
  14. snail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Snail (company), Snail (disambiguation), Snail, The Snail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snail: Rhymezone
  20. snail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. snail: FreeDictionary.org
  23. snail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. snail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. snail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. snail: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. snail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNAIL: Acronym Finder
  2. snail: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Snail: Easton Bible
  2. Snail: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Snail, The Snail: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See snailing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
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.

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