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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. |
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A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken
or decayed tooth. |
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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. |
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One of the secondary branches of an antler. |
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To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree;
to hew roughly. |
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To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a
snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. |
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