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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



... 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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