- (v.t.) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag or projecting part of a sunken tree.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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