What is "snub post"

Snub \Snub\, n.

1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]

   [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
   --Spenser.

2. 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.