Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: snail
IPA transcription: [sn'eɪl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: snail
    Meaning: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: snail
    Meaning: gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"
Usage examples
  • "What snail?"
  • "Don't you recognize me?" said the Snail.
  • Only we need not walk at a snail's' pace.'
  • Here, take them, little Snail, and give them to my good Fairy."
  • "Answer me quickly, pretty Snail, where have you left my Fairy?
  • Not but what that snail might as well have come upon anybody else's plate as hers."
  • The Snail, much against her usual habit, began to run like a lizard under a summer sun.
  • At all these questions, tumbling out one after another, the Snail answered, calm as ever:
  • The Snail, and other one-shelled molluscs, poke their heads out of the shell when feeding or moving.
  • On went the boat at Netteke's best speed, which seemed no better than a snail's pace to the fleeing family.