snubbing post (snub ing post)

A post around which a rope can be wound to check the motion of a body, as a boat or a horse, controlled by the rope; particularly, a post framed into a dock, or set in the bank of a canal, around which a line or hawser attached to a ve el can be wound to snub or check the ve el. Also snub - post. A stout line is carried forward, and the ends are attached on starboard and port to snubbing posts that project over the water like catheads. Sci . Amer ., N. Š., LVI. 326. Near the middle of the glade stands the high, circular horse-corral, with a snubbing - post in the center. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 655. snubbish (snub'ish), a. [ Spirit of Kant! have we not had enough To make religion sad, and sour, and snubbish ! Hood, Open Question. snubby (snub'i), a. [