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▪ I. † snailing, n. Obs.—1 ? = snail n.2
1688Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 16/1 The lower Valens..fringed for state..either with..Tufted fring, snailing fring, Gimpe fring. ▪ II. snailing, ppl. a. rare. [f. snail n.1 or v.] Winding spirally, or like the tracks of snails.
1615Crooke Body of Man 94 Wherein the snaking and snayling diuarications of the vessels do craule all ouer the belly. Ibid. 456 Some of these snailing paths are deeper. |