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snagging
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Snag \Snag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snagged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Snagging .] To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part ...
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Snagging , also known as snag fishing , snatching , snatch fishing , jagging (Australia), or foul hooking , is a method of fishing that entails catching a fish using hooks without the fish having to take the bait with their mouth. This is achieved by pulling ...
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vb. (present participle of snag English)
Usage examples of snagging.
The second was the near certainty of snagging a rockfish among the eddies and swirls where the north side of the tiny island rose sheer and stark from the dark green sea.
Then the Tomcat slammed into the deck at one hundred thirty knots, the arrester hook snagging the number-three wire in a perfect night trap as Tombstone first rammed the throttles forward, then brought them back to idle.
Found the iron pry-bar and flipped up the sewer lid, snagging it deftly back over the manhole when he was within.
On the porch Rojer was on his knees, his arms about two 'Dinis, clasping first one, then the other tightly to him, caressing each before snagging them together against him.
He turned back to the main building, snagging a ripe redfruit from a hanging limb as he walked.
Unbraided, it fell below her bottom, swirling wetly around her arms and snagging in the pines as she ran to see why they'd come back.
Blue bounded along beside Blaine as she fought to lift her tired feet above snagging roots and deadwood, sliding in the deep humus and snatching at the blessed support of the trees around her.
Here's a chance for you to get right with Heaven by oozing down to the dispensary, snagging a dressing and about five grains of neoanodyne.
Then he followed her into the chaparral, automatically adjusting his stride to keep the knapsack from snagging on every brittle branch along the way.
It was sweaty, difficult, distasteful, and often painful work, but paid better than hustling drinks and foreign nationals in hope of snagging a husband who could get her out of St.
She finished her coffee, leaned to place the cup on the table, and froze, eyes snagging on a familiar phrase.
She flipped it to the obverse, and light skidded off the polished metal surface, snagging on the roughness of engraving.
His wife slipped an arm in his, seamlessly snagging a store bag and heading for the top of the wide alley.
I shifted my feet so he wouldn’t step on them, and he made his casual way to the door, snagging his coat on the way.
The COD touched down in a barely controlled crash on the Jef's flight deck, tail hook snagging the number-three arrestor wire and dragging the big aircraft to a halt.