snail

etana

kerätä etanoita Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
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puhekieltä A slow person; a sluggard.
puhekieltä A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
puhekieltä A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
Vegetius (in translation)

They had also all manner of gynes engines (..) that needful is in taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled protected (..)