snub : Idioms & Phrases

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Snub nose

  • a short or flat nose.
Webster 1913

Snub post, ∨ Snubbing post

  • (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.
Webster 1913

snub-nosed

  • adjective satellite having a blunt nose
    pug-nose; pug-nosed; short-nosed.
    • a pug-nosed boy with freckles
    • a snub-nosed automatic
WordNet
Snub"-nosed` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel. snub-nosed revolver, a revolver with a very short barrel. --
Webster 1913

To snub a cable ∨ rope

  • (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out.
Webster 1913