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plural nubbles
A small knob or lump. quotations examples
Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
1897, Rudyard Kipling, “chapter 1”, in Captains Courageous
third-person singular simple present nubbles, present participle nubbling, simple past and past participle nubbled
(obsolete) To beat or bruise with the fist. quotations
if his Master went an Hair's Breadth beyond his Duty, he was a Tyrant, that it was lawful for him to Nubble him
1712, William Wagstaffe, Crispin the Cobler's Confutation of Ben H-dley