'Snag' definitions:
Definition of 'snag'
(from WordNet)
noun
A sharp protuberance
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
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear]
noun
verb
Catch on a snag; "I snagged my stocking"
verb
Get by acting quickly and smartly; "snag a bargain"
verb
Hew jaggedly
Definition of 'Snag'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) One of the secondary branches of an antler. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- Snag boat, a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. [U.S.]
- Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2. [1913 Webster]
- How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. --J. Cotgrave. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Snag'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'snag'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baby tooth,
- bag,
- bar,
- bicuspid,
- blemish,
- block,
- blockade,
- bottleneck,
- brake,
- bucktooth,
- bug,
- canine,
- catch,
- clog,
- cog,
- comb,
- complication,
- coral heads,
- cordon,
- crack,
- crag,
- crimp,
- crown,
- crux,
- curb,
- curtain,
- cuspid,
- cutter,
- deciduous tooth,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- dent,
- denticle,
- denticulation,
- dentil,
- dentition,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- difficulty,
- dogtooth,
- drag,
- drawback,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- entangle,
- entrap,
- eyetooth,
- failing,
- failure,
- fang,
- fault,
- faute,
- flaw,
- foible,
- fore tooth,
- foul,
- frailty,
- gagtooth,
- gang tooth,
- gold tooth,
- grinder,
- hamper,
- hang-up,
- harpoon,
- harrow,
- hazard,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hold-up,
- hole,
- hook,
- hurdle,
- impediment,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- incisor,
- infirmity,
- ironbound coast,
- jag,
- joker,
- kink,
- land,
- lasso,
- ledges,
- lee shore,
- little problem,
- mesh,
- milk tooth,
- molar,
- nail,
- net,
- noose,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- peak,
- pecten,
- peg,
- permanent tooth,
- pinch,
- pitfall,
- pivot tooth,
- premolar,
- problem,
- projection,
- quicksands,
- rake,
- ratchet,
- rift,
- rip,
- rockbound coast,
- rocks,
- rope,
- rub,
- sack,
- sandbank,
- sandbar,
- sands,
- sawtooth,
- scrivello,
- shallows,
- shoals,
- shortcoming,
- snaggle,
- snaggletooth,
- snare,
- sniggle,
- something missing,
- spear,
- spire,
- sprocket,
- spur,
- steeple,
- stricture,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- taint,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- tear,
- tooth,
- trap,
- traverse,
- tush,
- tusk,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- vulnerable place,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- wisdom tooth