Then he dragged Kazan to a log that high water had thrown up on the shore a few yards away and made the end of the babiche rope fast to a dead snag.

Instantly he was using the club again, until with a whining cry Kazan slunk under the protection of the snag to which he was fastened.

He watched the fire until the last embers of it died out, and then cautiously dragged himself from under the snag.

We are like to run across more than one such snag, an', what is worse, don't have a clear idea of whether we shall come plump on to the fort, or go a considerable distance to one side of it.

We found that one of the paddle-wheels was caught in a snag, but there was no harm done.

There, as you say, is the snag.

Unless we run up against some snag, and have engine trouble, we ought to get to the Channel long before dark sets in.

More often they run up against a snag in the shape of some serious-minded and muscular person, who objects to having his toes trodden on and being shoved off the pavement, and then they usually sober down, to the mutual advantage of themselves and the rest of the community.

This formidable chevaux-de-frise (or snag, as it was termed by the captain) fortunately did not do much damage to the vessel, although at first an alarm was raised that she was sinking, and much confusion ensued.

peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.

Sharpness N. sharpness &c adj.; acuity, acumination^; spinosity^. point, spike, spine, spicule [Biol.], spiculum^; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle^, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca.

Should not those Gladstone girls be ready to snag themselves?

"And I'm a snag," replied Douglas, as he pitched into him; and before the fellow had time to reflect, he lay sprawling in the mud.

The stream was hurrying them into a most frightful snag; escape was hopeless; so the boatman opened the conversation with this startling question: BOATMAN.Can you swim, sir? PHILOSOPHER.No, that I can't.

The captains of the boats told me that two dozen snag-boats in three years would clear the river; and that half that number could keep it clear; yet, rather than vote the money requisite, they exhibit a national indifference to the safety of life and property such as, I may confidently affirm, cannot be found in any other civilized nation.

There was a long, finely made tear in the bottom of the canoe where a little slither of wood had been neatly taken clean out; it looked as if the tooth of a sharp rock or snag had eaten down her length, and investigation showed that the hole went through.

He went at them systematically, however, only to run against a snag within the hour.

At the last of the ebb, a snag over near the shore would suddenly add on another angle and jab down in the water, coming up again with a shiver and a fish.

I'll bet you these blamed fools are going to strike a snag one of these days, or they'll leave things so that there'll be a fall-down.

The caller turned several different shades of red and realized that he had struck the biggest snag he'd ever struck in any courting career, past or present.

R.C. added several more black-and-blue spots to his already spotted anatomy, and he missed, just by an inch, a solid snag that would have broken him in two.

When finally it was extricated we found that the horse had a bad cut in the breast made by a snag on the log.

But I soon struck another snag.

"Jim, we have struck a snag.

"Never see sech a snag on 'em.