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Definition of Nobbling
1. nobble [v] - See also: nobble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobbling
Literary usage of Nobbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tory Democracy and Conservative Policy by Plain Tory (1892)
"nobbling THE LABOURER. We are now in the full swing of that devil's carnival—a
General Election—and the air is thick with the promises, the falsehoods, ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"A very sensible suggestion has been made with reference to the nobbling of horses.
It is extremely improbable that there would be any attempt to injure a ..."
3. The Western Address Directory: Containing the Cards of Merchants by William Gilman Lyford (1837)
"... and square and hoop iron ; a pair of nobbling rolls ; and two sets plain rolls
for rolling boiler and sheet iron—besides the blast for refining metal— ..."
4. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"Old Kew; the old witch whom they buried four months after nobbling (= securing) her
... I, 46*1: "How comes it that Germany, after nobbling (= pocketing) ..."
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