snub post

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snub post - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Snub \Snub\, n.
     1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]
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              [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight.      --J. Foster.
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     Snub nose, a short or flat nose.
  
     Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or
        shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion
        of a vessel.
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