🐌 A slow animal 🐌 An edible mollusc 🧺 To gather snails 🐢 To move slowly

to snail

8.6

To collect small shell animals from gardens for food or fun

verb
/sneɪl/

: recoger caracoles

We decided to snail at the beach, collecting different types of snails along the shore.

Examples

She introduced me to the fun of snailing in the forest during our vacation.
On weekends, we often go to the garden to snail for dinner ingredients.
He even likes to "snail hunt" at night; the man's nuts!

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Compounds

snail mail

Informal

7 3.4

Letters and packages that are sent and delivered by the postal service

garden snail

1 1.6

A small animal with a shell that moves slowly and eats garden plants

brown snail

2.7

A small garden snail with a brown shell and pale zigzag lines that eats plants

cinnamon snail

2.8

A sweet pastry of rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar

edible snail

3.0

A snail that people eat, often in French cooking

sea snail

Specialized

5.1

A small cold water fish that uses suction cup fins to cling to rocks

snail-flower

Specialized

9.9

A tropical climbing plant with yellow and purple coiled flowers like a snail shell

snail bean

Specialized

9.9

A climbing tropical plant with yellow and purple flowers whose lower part is curled like a snail shell

snail butter

7.4

Flavored butter with garlic, shallots, and parsley used to cook snails

snail darter

Specialized

9.4

A small freshwater fish that eats snails and lives in the Tennessee River

snail flower

Specialized

9.9

A climbing vine with bright yellow and purple flowers that coil like a snail shell

How Many

to harvest

84 1.6

to collect

499 1.1

to snail

8.6

to pick

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

snail infinitive

snailing present participle

snails third person singular

snaild past

snaild past participle

Etymology

Snail as a verb comes from the same old name snægl for the animal; people simply used the animal's name when they went out 'to gather' snails. That is why to 'snail' once meant to collect snails and still can mean that today.