snail-boren.U.S. a shellfish ( Urosalpinx cinerea) which injures oysters by boring.
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snail-bore1884
1884 E. Ingersoll in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 696 These small ‘Snails’, ‘Drills’, ‘Borers’, and ‘Snail-bores’, as they are variously called.