A Quick and Simple Dictionary

snag

1. Noun.  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. Noun.  A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
3. Noun.  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. Noun.  One of the secondary branches of an antler.
5. Noun.  As in cloth, a pulled thread or yarn.
6. Noun.  (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
7. Noun.  (Australia, informal) A sausage.
8. Noun.  A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
9. Verb.  To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
10. Verb.  (context, fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
11. Verb.  (slang) To obtain or pick up (something).
12. Verb.  (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.