Snag

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of the secondary branches of an Antler.

II. Snag ·vt To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

III. Snag ·noun A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.

IV. Snag ·vt To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

V. Snag ·noun 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.

VI. Snag ·noun 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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