snag

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1. snag - Noun

2. snag - Verb

Meaning

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.

A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.

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.

One of the secondary branches of an antler.

To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

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You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again. Colum McCann

Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives. Lauren Groff

there was a rip in his pants Source: Internet

she had snags in her stockings Source: Internet

a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds Source: Internet

I snagged my stocking Source: Internet

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