dew-snailn.
/ˈdjuːsneɪl/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
A slug. (So called from appearing while the dew is on the herbage.)
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1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Lumaca, the dewe snayle that hath no house.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Limace, (properly) the dew Snaile, or Snaile without a shell.
1699 A. Roberts Voy. Levant 15 All the sustenance we had there was three Dew snails, and some Roots.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Diseases of Trees Those Animals call'd Earwigs and Dew-snails, eat the finest Fruits on the Trees.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) ii Līmax, A snail, a dew-snail, or slug.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 17/2 Dew-snail, a slug.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dew-snail, the large black slug.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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