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snail-wheel

snail-wheel noun: in some striking timepieces, a rotating piece with a spiral periphery having notches so arranged as to determine the number of strokes made on the bell.

Noun

snail-wheel (plural snail-wheels)

  1. In some striking timepieces, a rotating piece with a spiral periphery having notches so arranged as to determine the number of strokes made on the bell.

snail-wheel meaning in Tamil

snail-wheel in Tamil

நந்தாழி

Forms of snail-wheel

pluralsnail-wheels

Questions about snail-wheel

What does snail-wheel mean?
Snail-wheel means in some striking timepieces, a rotating piece with a spiral periphery having notches so arranged as to determine the number of strokes made on the bell.
What is snail-wheel in Tamil?
Snail-wheel in Tamil is நந்தாழி. See Snail-wheel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is snail-wheel?
Snail-wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of snail-wheel?
The plural of snail-wheel is snail-wheels.

Words near snail-wheel in the dictionary

  1. snail-mail
  2. snail-paced
  3. snail-sense feminism
  4. snail-shell
  5. snail-shells
  6. snail-wheel
  7. snail-wheels
  8. snailase
  9. Snailbeach
  10. snailborne
  11. Snailbrook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snail-wheel (page history and authors); snail-wheel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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