shell-snail

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noun A snail with a shell; any such terrestrial gastropod, as distinguished from slugs, which have a small shell, if any. Both these forms used to be called snails.

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Gargantua, I think that is the horn of a shell-snail, do not eat it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
Gargantua, I think that is the horn of a shell-snail, do not eat it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
Some of the folk ate snails, the common brown shell-snail found in the hedges.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867
Which Grangousier seeing, said to Gargantua, I think that is the horn of a shell-snail, do not eat it.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
_bul-horn_, the shell-snail; _dumble-dory_, the black-beetle (but this may be a corruption of the dor-beetle).

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
a very amusing occurrence! to see such a similarity of feelings between the two [Greek text]! for so the Greeks called both the shell-snail and the tortoise.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756