subs. (American).—A snag: a fallen tree, rising and falling with the waves.

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  1847.  ROBB, Streaks of Squatter Life, 106. Snags and SAWYERS, just thar, wur dreadful plenty.

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  1884.  S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Life on the Mississippi (1883), passim.

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