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Snag   /snæg/   Listen
Snag

noun
1.
A sharp protuberance.
2.
A dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest.
3.
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.  Synonyms: rent, rip, split, tear.  "She had snags in her stockings"
4.
An unforeseen obstacle.  Synonyms: hang-up, hitch, rub.
verb
(past & past part. snagged; pres. part. snagging)
1.
Catch on a snag.
2.
Get by acting quickly and smartly.
3.
Hew jaggedly.





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"Snag" Quotes from Famous Books



... snag," he repeated, "and now your mate's run against another." He gave the butt of his ready pistol a significant tap. "But I'm the worst snag that ever either of you struck," he went on in his vainglory. "Make no mistake about that. And the ...
— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
... of a wild ride somewhere in Jones's wake, and of sundry knocks and bruises he had sustained, of pieces of corduroy he had left decorating the cedars and of a most humiliating event, where a gaunt and bare pinyon snag had penetrated under his belt and lifted him, mad ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... the speed of the canoe was not slackened. The young Onondaga devoted most of his time to watching. Much wreckage from storms or the suction of flood water often floated on the surface of these wild rivers, and his keen eyes searched for trunk or bough or snag. They also scanned at intervals the green walls speeding by on either side, lest they might pass some camp fire and not notice it, but finding no lighter note in the darkness he felt sure that no hostile ...
— The Hunters of the Hills • Joseph Altsheler
... all he said, for Dick never liked to boast in advance of what he expected to accomplish, having learned from sad experience that very often a snag is apt to sink the craft freighted with hopes, ...
— Dick the Bank Boy - Or, A Missing Fortune • Frank V. Webster
... began complainingly and without preface, waving a dirty hand contemptuously at the despised tackle when the two came slowly up. "That's the way it goes when you take a lot of girls along! They've got to have the best rods and tackle, and all they'll do will be to snag lines and lose leaders and hooks, and ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower


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