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noun
- Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid.
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noun
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
- A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- As in cloth, a pulled thread or yarn.
- (figurative) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (context, Australian English, informal) A sausage.
verb (snag, g, ed)
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection
- Be careful not to your stockings on that concrete bench!
- (context, fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target
- We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi river.
- (context, slang) To pick up (something)
- Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
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noun
- the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb
- (politics) the place where a campaign takes place
- (politics) an occasion at which the campaign takes place
- (cricket) one of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball
- (context, drawing) an artists" drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media
- wooden or concrete poles used to support a house.
verb
- (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- ''This last question has me stumped.
- (intransitive) to campaign
- He"s been stumping for that reform for months.
- (context, transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
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