NOUN
  1. a small lump or protuberance

How To Use nubble In A Sentence

  • But the mantra serves mainly to remind me of my deep attachment to the nubble.
  • A round nubble about 14 mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over it. Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
  • “See that,” she said, and of course he did, for he was gawping and blinking at it, the nubble out of the babba’s belly. At Swim, Two Boys
  • a while, and ketch me a mess o 'brook-trout, but as for tinkerin' over the roads -- why, that artis 'that was down here three months las' summer, paintin 'a couple o' Leezur's sheep eatin 'rock-weed off'n a nubble, said 't our roads was picturusque. Vesty of the Basins
  • That little nubble almost west, sticking up so black against the sunset's Seal Island. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good
  • In one day afterward , the Grand Jury found a True Bill against Christopher Nubbles for felony.
  • Menopause, premenstrual period, veteran stage , engorged breasts before emmenia, breast nubble.
  • Too alert to sleep, I fill my notebook with sketches of the nubble under the quarter moon while Margaret naps.
  • Now my body welcomes every roll and pitch of the stubby Island Romance ferrying me back to my nubble.
  • And noo I am thinking ye'll een let the puir mon in the dock just gae free; and pit my laird, his greece, the nubble duk ', intil the prisoner's place. The Lost Lady of Lone
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