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Snag   /snæg/   Listen
noun
Snag  n.  
1.
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. "The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne."
2.
A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
3.
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
4.
(Zool.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
Snag boat, a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. (U.S.)
Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2. "How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side."


verb
Snag  v. t.  (past & past part. snagged; pres. part. snagging)  
1.
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. (U. S.)





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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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