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Nab   /næb/   Listen
noun
Nab  n.  
1.
The summit of an eminence. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
(Firearms) The cock of a gunlock.
3.
(Locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.


verb
Nab  v. t.  (past & past part. nabbed; pres. part. nabbing)  
1.
To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly. (Colloq.)
2.
To capture; to arrest; as, the police nabbed the culprit wtrying to hide in the basement.





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"Nab" Quotes from Famous Books



... up with a round turn, you and your newspapers. I'll bet you won't get further than Poitiers before the police will nab you." ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... I must talk with you! And it will be better for you, my man—" a sharp metallic click told that the speaker had turned the key in the lock behind him—"to step in here with me. You needn't be afraid I'm going to nab you; I've got a lay better than hooking you for the dock. As for the others, they can go, ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... pertater, is it, for a superintendent t' lay into a chap at Sunday School for things what he done outside? S'pose I float Tinribs's puddlin' tub down the creek by accident, with Doon's baby in it when I ain't thinkin', is it square fer him to nab me in Sunday School, an' whack me fer it, pretendin' all the time it's 'cause I stuck ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... the very end of summer. We can't do a thing till then; have to lie low and wait. You need money, I heard you say; I suppose you're afraid to hock this twinkler"—touching the pearl pendant. "Police probably watching the pawnshops and would nab you. Well, I'll stake you till ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... retreats in England; Great Langdale, and Blea Tarn at the head of Little Langdale, immortalised in 'The Excursion'; the upper end of Ullswater, and Kirkstone Pass; and all the mountain tracks and paths round Grasmere and Rydal, especially the old upper road between them, under Nab Scar, his favourite walk during his later years, where he "composed hundreds of verses." There is scarcely a rock or mountain summit, a stream or tarn, or even a well, a grove, or forest-side in all that neighbourhood, which is not imperishably ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight


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