Snag boat, a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and
other obstructions in navigable streams. [U.S.] -- Snag tooth. Same as
Snag, 2.
How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the
water side.
J. Cotgrave.
Snag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Snagging (?).]
1. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew
roughly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or
projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]
Snag"ged (?), a. Full of snags; snaggy.
Snag"gy (?), a. 1. Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or
sharp points; abounding with knots. "Upon a snaggy oak." Spenser.