ppl. a. [f. SNAG sb.1 or v.2]

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  1.  Having projecting points or jagged protuberances; jagged, ragged.

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1658.  Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 964. The edge of the wings like the Bats snagged, and as it were prickly.

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1662.  H. More, Antid. Ath., II. iii. 49. Howlings and shoutings of poor naked men belabouring one another with snag’d sticks.

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1741.  Phil. Trans., XLI. 563. The Roch, or snagged Wheel, being herein accounted as Part of the great Wheel.

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1791.  W. Bartram, Carolina (1792), 245. Having provided ourselves with a long snagged sapling, called an Indian ladder.

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1898.  Westm. Gaz., 9 April, 1/3. By this time his trouser knees were torn in snagged rents.

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  † b.  Of teeth: = SNAGGLED a. 1. Obs.–0

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1687.  Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. s.v., A snagged Tooth, that does not stand even.

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  2.  Caught or impaled upon a snag.

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1872.  C. King, Mountain. Sierra Nev., viii. 174. I made a dash for the snagged mule.

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