Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bite; gnaw; nibble.
- Another spelling of
nab .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete, obsolete To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
- transitive verb colloq. To nab. See
Nab , v. t.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb colloquial To
nab orsteal . - verb obsolete To seize with the
teeth ; tognaw .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
See nab, and compare knap.
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