n. | 1. | 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. |
| 2. | A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. |
| 3. | 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. |
| 4. | (Zool.) One of the secondary branches of an antler. |
v. t. | 1. | To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. |
| 2. | To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. |