Definition: snag

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

snag
     n : an unforeseen obstacle [syn: hang-up, hitch, rub]
     v 1: catch on a snag
     2: get by acting quickly and smartly
     3: hew jaggedly

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.

            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. (Zo["o]l.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
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.]

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

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