Snag

[snæg] or [snæɡ]

Definition

(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.

(verb.) catch on a snag; 'I snagged my stocking'.

(verb.) get by acting quickly and smartly; 'snag a bargain'.

Checked by Abram--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checker: Williams

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Knot, knarl, knob, projection.[2]. Tooth (in contempt).[3]. [U. S.] Swaying trunk or branch of a tree (fixed at one end in a river).

Editor: Winthrop

Definition

n. a sharp protuberance: a short branch: a projecting tooth or stump: a tree lying in the water so as to impede navigation—hence any stumbling-block or obstacle.—v.t. to catch on a snag: to entangle: to fill with snags or to clear from such.—n. Snag′boat a steamboat with appliances for removing snags.—adjs. Snag′ged Snag′gy full of snags.

v.t. to lop superfluous branches from a tree.—n. Snag′ger the tool for this.

Edited by Antony