snail n also snailer OED ~ sb1 c; cp EDD snailer 'a snail.' A variety of sea-snail; esp periwinkle, family Littorinidae; WRINKLE1.
P 148-64 Snails are salt-water fleshy animals in spiral shells, up to half an inch in diameter. M 68-7 Sometimes boys of my age and I would go picking snails in the harbour... Everyone would be singing their favourite snailer song. 'Snailer, snailer come out your hole / If you don't I beat your father and mother black as [any] coal. C 69-5 Sometimes we picked up rinkles (small round shells) containing a tiny creature which we called a snail.
