snail pace

English

Noun

snail pace (plural snail paces)

Alternative form of snail's pace
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
  
  Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes.

Anagrams

Asclepian, Pascaline, Plaisance, Plasencia, apsacline, caesalpin, plaisance, spalacine

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