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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
  • As in cloth, a pulled thread or yarn.
  • A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
  • A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
  • 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.
  • Australian English|informal A sausage.
  • figurative A problem or difficulty with something.
  • One of the secondary branches of an antler.

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Verb:

  • fishing 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
  • slang To pick up (something)
  • To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection

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