The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snubbing.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[=o]ttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.]
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
--J. Foster.-
To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
To snub a cable or To snub a rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which someone is snubbed; a rebuke. vb. (present participle of snub English)
WordNet
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Wikipedia
See snubber for a device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems
Snubbing is a type of heavy well intervention performed on oil and gas wells. It involves running the BHA on a pipe string using a hydraulic workover rig. Unlike wireline or coiled tubing, the pipe is not spooled off a drum but made up and broken up while running in and pulling out, much like conventional drill pipe. Due to the large rigup, it is only used for the most demanding of operations when lighter intervention techniques do not offer the strength and durability. Unlike conventional drilling and completions operations, snubbing can be performed with the well still under pressure (not killed). When done so, it is called hydraulic workover. It can also be performed without having to remove the Christmas tree from the wellhead.
Usage examples of "snubbing".
Metchnikoff went back to Odessa, getting a dreadful snubbing from Koch on the way, and wondered whether it would not be best to give up his tidy salary at the Russian Institute, to get away from these people yelling for results.
In others the snubbing might have led to a self-examination bearing positive fruit when it came to reforming character, but in Clodius it merely contributed to his weaknesses.
Now Mr Roby could perhaps bear a snubbing perhaps as well as any other official subordinate,--but he was one who would study the question and assure himself that it was, or that it was not, worth his while to bear it.
By the side of the instructive and piquant snubbings she received from Knight, Stephen’s general agreeableness seemed watery.
Catti-brie knew the joy of the drow's spirit, and the unavoidable pain he had suffered at the snubbings of those who could not see that spirit for the color of his skin.
After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.