snail-hornn.
Now dialect.
1.
a. A snail-shell; a snail.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > member of > parts of > shell
shellc1400
snail-shell1530
snail-horn1672
snail-house1688
1672 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (new ed.) xxxii The Snail carrieth about her Snailhorn [testa].
1747 [see sense 1b]. 1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 10 The snail-horn searching, or the mossy nest.
b. snail-horn stone (see quot. 1747).
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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Ujb 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. 1749 and snail-horned adj. at Derivatives.) ? Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > horn
snail-horn1749
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > horn
snail-horn1749
scur1882
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. 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.
Derivatives
ˈsnail-horned adj. ? Obsolete (See quot. 1787).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [adjective] > having particular type of horns
upheaded1549
crumple-horned1685
crumpled-horn?a1750
snail-horned1787
snaily1884
scurred1963
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having particular type of horns
snail-horned1787
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk 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.
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