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snail-horn Now dial.
[snail n.1]
1. A snail-shell; a snail.
1672C. Hoole tr. Comenius Vis. World xxxii, The Snail carrieth about her Snailhorn [testa]. 1747[see b]. 1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 10 The snail-horn searching, or the mossy nest. 1828–in dial. glossaries (Yks., Northampt., Leic., Lancs.).
b. snail-horn stone (see quot.).
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. U j b, Snailhorn Stone is a course Stone, having mixt Knotts within it, much like Snail⁓horns when it is broken, and hard to break.
2. (See quot. and next.) ? Obs.
1749W. Ellis Exper. Impr. Sheep 94 If..a lamb is gelt at a week or fortnight old, it will cause it to have a thin, short, and what we in Hertfordshire call a Snail-Horn.
So ˈsnail-horned a. (See quot.) ? Obs.
1787W. H. Marshall E. Norfolk (1795) II. 388 Snail⁓horned, having short, down-hanging horns, with blunt points, and somewhat bent, in the usual form of the snail; spoken of cattle. |