SNUB

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] Bailey.

2.
v.

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

3.
v.

To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. J. Foster.

4.
v.

To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten.

5.
n.

A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. Spenser.

6.
n.

A check or rebuke; an intended slight. J. Foster. 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.

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