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Commons has related media at: Garden snail.   From the Middle
English snegge, from the Old English snægel from the Proto-
Germanic *snigilaz.    snail (plural snails)    1. Any of very
many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of
the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.   2. A slow person;
a sluggard.   3. (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.   4. (military, historical) A tortoise or
testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.     •
Vegetius (in translation)       They had also all manner of
gynes [engines] [] that needful is [in] taking or sieging of
castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow
pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were
heled [protected] []   5. The pod of