Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An animal that casts its shell, like the lobster and crab.
- n. A shell-snail.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect A snail.
- n. UK, dialect A snail's shell.
- n. UK, dialect Any shellfish which casts its shell, such as a lobster.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod.
- n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dodman’.
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molluscs
very comprehensive list
of molluscs,who does not like
calamari? hmm yum
molluscigerous
100,000 species just in molluscsabalone, ammonite, argonaut, ataata, belon, bivalve, blackhead, bluepoint, brachiopod, buckie, byssal, byssus and 271 more...
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shells
testudinals
testudines, turtle, testudine, testudo, tortoise, scallop, triton, calipash, daphnia, carapace, gryphite, phragmacone and 62 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
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Snaily, clammy, squidy
The list is mainly a vehicle to give some quotations about mollusks, so check the comments.
oyster, snail, nacre, clam, paua, slug, limpet, shell, scallop, whelk, winkle, conchology and 26 more...
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mollusque "I'm a reg’lar Dodman," said Mr. Peggotty, by which he meant snail.
--Charles Dickens, 1848, David Copperfield Nov 8, 2007