nailed
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The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013
“This first one’s to Gladys Gudgeon, bless her — huge fan of mine —” The minutes snailed by.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
But if the train into St. Helier's crawled, the one to Gorey snailed, to quote Roger.
From The Spanish Chest by Brown, Edna Adelaide
I took another branch road here, and we snailed along to another town, composed of a wood-pile.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
For a gilt-edged, double extra head, the chamfer at c can be "snailed," that is, ground with a suitable lap before bluing, like the stem-wind wheels on some watches.
