snag

1. 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. Source: opted

2. n. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. n. One of the secondary branches of an antler. Source: opted

5. v. t. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. Source: opted

6. v. t. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. Source: opted

7. n. a sharp protuberance Source: wordnet

8. n. a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest Source: wordnet

9. n. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart Source: wordnet

10. n. an unforeseen obstacle Source: wordnet

11. v. catch on a snag Source: wordnet

12. v. get by acting quickly and smartly Source: wordnet

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