A shell-fish with a hod-like lump. A sea-snail, otherwise called hodmandod.
·noun A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. II. Dodman ·noun Any shellfish which casts its she...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
a shell snail. See hodmadod. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose