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snail-wheels

snail-wheels is the plural of snail-wheel.

Meaning of snail-wheel

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.

Questions about snail-wheels

What is snail-wheels the plural of?
Snail-wheels is the plural of snail-wheel.

Words near snail-wheels in the dictionary

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

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