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noun

Southwest English dialect a slug

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How to use dew snail in a sentence

Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.
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Cars in the cross alley are covered with a silver glaze of dew.
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The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.
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If he gets rid of foam cups, where am I going to put my 32oz Mountain Dew?
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Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
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A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The falling dew, and the howling wind raised him not from that bed of lonely despair.
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I ain't a gwine ter back daown naow; but I dew jest wish Jeff Hyer wuz along.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Her beauty seemed fresh made; he thought of a wild rose washed by the dew and sparkling in the sunlight.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood