dial. and rare. [Later form or var. of SNEG sb. See also SNAG-GREET.] A snail.
1674. Ray, S. & E. Co. Words, 77. A Snagge, a snail. Suss. [Hence in Kersey, Bailey, Grose, etc.]
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Snaggs,… Snails.
1862. Lower, Athenæum, 30 Aug., 281. When my occasional gardener talks of the ravages of ‘them snags’ on a peach-tree.
