nobble
verb (used with object)
to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
nobbler
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a word derived from
nobble.
Example Sentences
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"God save our nobbler King"—the accent was quaint, but the children sang lustily.
From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Betty Keays-Young Salmon
It is no more so absolute a necessity to take a nobbler as it was ten years ago.
From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny
And having poured Doyle out a nobbler and put a flask in his own pocket, Mahony reopened the front door to the howl of the wind.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
Medlicot probably indulged in no such speculations; but the nobbler, when brought close to his lips, was grateful to him as to others.
From Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope
Five and six shillings per meal, seven-and-sixpence for a bottle of ale, and one shilling for half a glass or "nobbler" of brandy.
From A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Ellen Clacy
