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snag 1. a small loop or hole in a fabric caused by a sharp object 2. Engineering a projection that brings to a stop a sliding or rotating component 3. Chiefly US and Canadian a tree stump in a riverbed that is dangerous to navigation 4. US and Canadian a standing dead tree, esp one used as a perch by an eagle snag [snag] (forestry) A standing dead tree.
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On one occasion, having continued to float at night, after the moon was down, they ran under a great snag, or sunken tree, with dry branches above the water. She passed many a snag whose "break" could have told her a thing to break her heart, for it showed a current moving in the same direction that the boat was going; but her thoughts were elsewhere, and she did not notice. Poor old creatures, it was all of twenty years since any one of them had known what it was to be equipped with any remaining snag or remnant of a tooth. |
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