See quotations. In New Jersey, a boat’s rope is fastened round the snubbin’ post: ‘Dialect Notes,’ i. 334.
1846. I felt the cold nose of the captain of the band [of sharks] snubbing against my side.—W. T. Porter, ed., ‘A Quarter Race in Kentucky,’ etc., p. 37.
1853. A snubber, may it please the court, snubs the boat when she heaves to on the heel-path shore, and unships the whiffletrees in passing a lock.—Weekly Oregonian, March 12: from an Albany, N.Y., paper.
