as in snails
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
we quickly left the draggers behind and sprinted up the hill
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Noun
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Chitons belong to the class Polyplacophora, a group of marine mollusks — distant relatives of snails, clams, and octopuses — distinguished by a series of overlapping shell plates running down their backs.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
3 Mar. 2026 -
Chitons are distant relatives of snails, clams, and octopuses, distinguished by overlapping shell plates running down their backs.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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The two crawlers, each about 131 feet long and 114 feet wide, were constructed in the 1960s to move the giant Saturn V rockets from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch sites.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
25 Feb. 2026
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Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Draggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draggers. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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