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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



... offishness, none will be suspected. Fall in line, I say! Dog's name is Ginger. Animals like to be tagged, more human-like. Act as if you always had been, or had come back. If there's one thing Polly can't abide, it's hitting a snag." ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... in English; "if we should strike a snag or any thing, broadside on, the boat would roll ...
— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott
... exactly forget it. I was wondering how we could account for that if we accepted the shock theory. I guess we can't. I'm still up against it. I've struck a snag—maybe a stone ...
— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele
... had yet come in;—doubtless they had been driven into some far-away bayous by the storm. The only boat at the settlement, the Carmencita, had been almost wrecked by running upon a snag three days before;—there was at least a fortnight's work for the ship-carpenter of Dead Cypress Point. And Feliu was sleeping as if nothing unusual had happened—the heavy sleep of a sailor, heedless of commotions and voices. And his men, Miguel and Mateo, were ...
— Chita: A Memory of Last Island • Lafcadio Hearn
... quiet loaf, the party sped homeward with the current, handling rods and trolls as salmon and bass demanded lively attention. Shooting a rapid, and out into a deep pool at its foot, the Doctor's boat struck a snag, and he, having a resisting power equal to that of a billiard-ball, put his heels where his head had been, and disappeared under the water, to pop up again instantly, sputtering and spitting, like a jug full of yeast with a ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various


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