nubble

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  1. A nub. The name nubble is applied to a rocky promontory on the coast of Maine, at York.
  2. To beat or bruise with the fist. I nubbled him so well favouredly with my right, that you could see no Eyes he had for the Swellings. N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, Notes, II. 456.

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  1. A variant of nobble, diminutive of nob, nub.
  2. Freq. of nub, *knub, v.: see nub, v. Cf. Low German nubben, knock.
 

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