Category:Snag

Snag, n. Etym: [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. Dryden.

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. (zoöl.)

Defn: 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. J. Cotgrave.

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.]