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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



... "as far as it goes. I'm ready to give up the brat, but will his father keep faith? Perhaps he'll have the police on hand ready to nab me." ...
— Frank and Fearless - or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent • Horatio Alger Jr.
... fatal to himself and to his ancient Castle of Glencardine. Reid, in his Annals of Auchterarder, relates how, after the Civil War, Lord Dundrennan, in company with his cousin, George Lochan of Ochiltree, and burgess of Auchterarder and the Laird of M'Nab, descended into Strathearn and occupied the castle with about fifty men. He hurriedly put it into a state of defence. General Overton besieged the place in person, with his army, consisting of eighteen hundred foot and eleven hundred horse, and battered the walls ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... live in a little bit of a house sticking out on the 'pike like that," said aunt Corinne to her nephew. "Folks could run against it on dark nights. Does he stay there by himself? And if robbers or old beggars came by they could nab him the ...
— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... the hardest follow to nab you could possibly conceive; as full of quips and quirks as an Old Bailey lawyer. But we managed to bring it home to him. Lord! his bag was choke-full of tracts against every man who had a good coat on his back; and as if that was not enough, cheek by jowl with ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... of the responsibility, I guess. So, while the thing is still fresh in my mind, I'll trot around to Headquarters to wake up our sleeping Chief. Things have come to a pretty pass here in Scranton when boys have to lend a helping hand to the police force so as to nab a petty thief." ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson


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