gusset vs snag

gusset

noun
  • A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. 

  • A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations. 

  • A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. 

  • A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet. 

  • An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset. 

verb
  • To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into. 

snag

noun
  • A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth. 

  • A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. 

  • A sausage. 

  • A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth. 

  • A goal. 

  • A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). 

  • A problem or difficulty with something. 

  • A dead tree that remains standing. 

  • A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. 

  • Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it. 

  • One of the secondary branches of an antler. 

verb
  • To obtain or pick up. 

  • To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface. 

  • To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. 

  • To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target. 

  • To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection. 

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