GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Snag (?), n. [Prov. E., n., a lump on a tree where a branch has been cut off; v., to cut off the twigs and small branches from a tree, of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. snaigh, snaidh, to cut down, to prune, to sharpen, p. p. snaighte, snaidhte, cut off, lopped, Ir. snaigh a hewing, cutting.]
   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.
   
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   Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. Dryden.
   
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   2. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.  Prior.
   
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   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.
   
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   4. (Zool.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
   
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   Snag boat, a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. [U.S.] -- Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2.
   
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   How thy snag teeth stand orderly,
   
   Like stakes which strut by the water side. J. Cotgrave.
   
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   Snag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Snagging (?).]
   1. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [Prov. Eng.]  Halliwell.
   
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   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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