snudge2 (snuj)

i.; pret. and pp. snudged, ppr. snudging. [Cf. snudgel.] To save penu[Obsolete or prov. Eng.] tube rance or knot in wood. And lifting up his dread full club on hight, All armd with ragged snubbes and knottie graine. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 7. 2. A nose turned up at the tip and somewhat flat and broad; a pug-nose. My father's nose was aquiline, and mine is a snub. Marryat. 3. A check; a rebuff; a rebuke; an intentional slight. They [the porphyrogeniti] seldom forget faces, and never mi an opportunity of speaking a word in season, or administering a snub in season, according to circumstances. H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 13. 4. The sudden checking of a rope or cable running out.-5. A stake, set in the bank of a river or canal, around which a rope may be cast to check the motion of a boat or raft. [U. S. and Canada.]