The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snubbing post
Snub \Snub\, n.
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A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]
[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
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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.
Wiktionary
snubbing post
n. (context nautical English) A post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to stop the motion of a vessel.
Usage examples of "snubbing post".
With a smooth redirection of the fish's motion, he slammed its head against the snubbing post.
When she did he caught the foot with the rawhide rope and took a hitch around the snubbing post.