'Snubbing post' definitions:
Definition of 'Snubbing post'
From: GCIDE
- Snub \Snub\, n.
- 1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. --J. Foster. [1913 Webster]
- Snub nose, a short or flat nose.
- Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel. [1913 Webster]