[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
--Spenser.
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2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. --J. Foster.
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{Snub nose}, a short or flat nose.
{Snub post}, or {Snubbing post} (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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