Snaily

a. (and sb.). Also 6–7 snailie, 7 snayly, 9 snailey. [f. SNAIL sb.¹]

  1.  Like a snail; resembling that of a snail; snail-like.

1596.  Edward III., I. i. B. But I will make you shrinke your snailie hornes.

1611.  Cotgr., Limaceux, Snailie, Snaile-like.

1627.  Drayton, Agincourt, etc. 187. These Dialls…, Whose Snayly motion of the moouing hand, (Although it goe) yet seeme to me to stand.

  2.  Infested by snails; covered with the slime of snails.

1870.  Furnivall, in Boorde’s Dyetary (1870), 249, marg. Don’t lie in ratty and snaily rooms.

1882.  Blackmore, Christowell, I. xii. 182. The rooks began to caw,… the young lady, reading in a snaily chair, to gaze about.

  3.  Austr. Slightly curled after the manner of a snail-shell; having horns of this description. (Cf. SNAIL-HORN 2.)

1884.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Melbourne Mem., xvii. 123. Are you quite sure that you saw that black bullock to-day—him with the snaily horn? Ibid. (1891), Sydney-side Saxon, viii. 125. There’s a snailey Wallanbah bullock I haven’t seen this two years.

  b.  As sb. A kind of bullock characterized by having such horns.

1884.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Melbourne Mem., ix. 68. Snaileys and poleys, old and young, coarse and fine, they were a mixed herd in every sense.