nubble

plural nubbles

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of knubble (“small knob or lump”).

   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

present singular third person nubbles · participle present nubbling · participle past nubbled · past nubbled

1. obsoleteTo beat or bruise with the fist.

   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