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1. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
    
2. Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
   - escargot

1. Gather snails
   "We went snailing in the summer"

Derived forms: snails, snailing, snailed

Type of: collect, garner, gastropod, gather, meat, pull together, univalve

Part of: edible snail, Helix pomatia

Encyclopedia: Snail