[f. SNUB v.1]
1. One who administers a snub or snubs.
1861. Sat. Rev., 14 Sept., 269. Either the snubber has authority on his side,… or perhaps we have given way to enthusiasm, and are met by ridicule.
1880. ‘Ouida,’ Moths, III. 18. And the disagreeable snappers and snubbers and snarlers?
2. U.S. One who snubs a rope or boat; a device for snubbing or checking.
1853. in Thornton, Amer. Gloss. (1912), II. 825. A snubber … snubs the boat when she heaves to on the heel-path shore.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2231/2. Snubber.… A cable-stopper.
