Snail-Paced

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.

2. God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.