Snag

[snag]

A snag is something sharp that sticks out, like a splinter or a dead tree branch. It’s also a hitch in a plan. If you develop a terrible cat allergy, your lifelong dream of being a cat trainer has hit a snag.

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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.

Noun
an unforeseen obstacle

Noun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

Noun
a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest; "a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds"

Noun
a sharp protuberance

Verb
hew jaggedly

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Verb
catch on a snag; "I snagged my stocking"

Verb
get by acting quickly and smartly; "snag a bargain"

n.
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.

n.
A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.

n.
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.

n.
One of the secondary branches of an antler.

v. t.
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

v. t.
To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

Snag

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.
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. Prior. 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. (Zo'94l.) 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.

Snag

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. 2. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]

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.

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

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Usage Examples

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