nubbins

John is a man so alienated from himself that he sets out to cut off his arms with a power-saw and achieve the perfect "nubbins" he once imagined he saw on a Vietnam veteran.

Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010

John is a man so alienated from himself that he sets out to cut off his arms with a power-saw and achieve the perfect "nubbins" he once imagined he saw on a Vietnam veteran.

Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010

Three of these "nubbins," which had been preserved, I saw many years after the war.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

She raises a few "nubbins" of corn for table consumption, rice, fruits, yams and plantains.

The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams 1878

John is a man so alienated from himself that he sets out to cut off his arms with a power-saw and achieve the perfect "nubbins" he once imagined he saw on a Vietnam veteran.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sebastian Doggart 2010

John is a man so alienated from himself that he sets out to cut off his arms with a power-saw and achieve the perfect "nubbins" he once imagined he saw on a Vietnam veteran.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

(you said "nubbins," right?) they cannot be brushed out.

Feministe 2008

(you said "nubbins," right?) they cannot be brushed out.

Feministe 2008

"nubbins" or small ears of corn for any pig or heifer which he may meet with in his ride.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

"nubbins," and gave up, promising ourselves that we wouldn't be imposed upon in that way again.

The Voyage of the Rattletrap Hayden Carruth 1897