For example, I bought the DVD of "Chariots of Fire" as my VHS was worn to a nubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Know What Ticks Me Off?] Reference

That tallest blue pine, that nubble of grasses in the upland meadow, that outcrop of granite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

A round nubble about 14 mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Lady of Lone] Reference

"That little nubble almost west, sticking up so black against the sunset's Seal Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vesty of the Basins] Reference

You rubble scrubble mubble nubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference

And a nubble of beef, and, to moisten these.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch] Reference