Usage examples (8)

• For example, I bought the DVD of "Chariots of Fire" as my VHS was worn to a nubble.
• That tallest blue pine, that nubble of grasses in the upland meadow, that outcrop of granite.
• A round nubble about 14 mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over it.
• 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.