snub /snub/

1. To take up, cut short, rebuff, in a humiliating or mortifying manner
2. To rebuke
3. To check or stop
4. To bring to a sudden stop, eg to bring (a boat, unbroken horse, etc) to a stop by means of a rope secured to a post or stake
5. To cut or break short

1. An act of snubbing
2. A check
3. A snub nose
4. (archaic snubbe) a stub, snag, knob

1. Flat, broad, blunt and turned up
2. (of a polyhedron) having undergone secondary truncation (geometry)

snubbˈer noun

1. Someone who snubs
2. A device for stopping a rope
3. A shock absorber (N American)

snubbˈing noun and adjective

snubbˈingly adverb

snubbˈish or snubbˈy adjective

1. Inclined to snub or check
2. Somewhat snub

snubbing post noun

A post for passing a rope round, so as to stop a boat or horse

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