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.