snag

• an unforeseen obstacle
• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
• a sharp protuberance
• a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
• catch on a snag
• get by acting quickly and smartly
• hew jaggedly
• A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off
• A tooth projecting beyond the rest
• 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 injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Canada

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