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Answer for the clue "Pencil stub ", 6 letters:
nubbin
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Word definitions for nubbin in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stunted ear of corn," 1690s, American English diminutive of nub . General sense of "small piece" is from 1857.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nubbin \Nub"bin\, n. A small or imperfect ear of maize. [Colloq. U. S.]
Usage examples of nubbin.
He peered toward the distant nubbin on the starwashed horizon that was the hill of Deese House, hoping frantically that Patrobe would, with his usual exquisite care, take his time, enough time.
For the ragged-trousered man, with practically buttonless blue shirt and greasy e-stained torn coat held together by one string-suspended cloth button, unshaven face carrying beard a half-inch long, and cloth cap on one side of shaggy, thinning half-greyed head, was scraping away, with the broken blade of a dullish looking barley knife, the rounded nubbin of what had once been the end of a loaf of bread.
Sandy sipped on some oolong tea and glanced idly at the ribs he had chewed down to nubbins, he experienced a momentary qualm.
Her dark scalp was gristled with the sandpapery nubbins the clippers had left behind.
There he was, all two centimeters of him, bright red, of course, with little nubbins of horns and a long spiked tail.
Uncle John, lying helpless amid and upon the nubbins that had been piled over his strong box.
At last Joe Devins summoned returning neighbors, who came to the rescue, and the poor nubbins were left to the rats once more.
What we had left to take slowly back up the Academy's hill was a leash, a collar with tags describing medication-allergies and food-sensitivities, and a nubbin of let's call it attached material.
Sheer bloodymindedness keeps some of 'em in place, but my staff's down to nubbins or feathermovers.
Growing ever more excited, Aris dropped to his knees and began to search his belt bag for a nubbin of sketching charcoal.
The ship had contracted, necks reduced in length, tail and nose become blunt nubbins, grooves indenting the circumference of the second homeball like the cell divisions of a blastula.
By the end of a season of setups and teardowns, they'll have worn down to useless nubbins.
I could feel every taste bud on her tongue as it glided over my swollen nubbin, glad that she took the direct approach and didn’.
He grabbed my ass and brought my hips up to his face, his tongue lashing my nubbin.
In his left trouser pocket a nubbin of fluff resembled the ear-lobe of the legendary Jack Palance.