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• Snagging
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• Snag

(1):

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

(2):

(n.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(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.

(5):

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

(6):

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