What is "nobbler"

Usage examples of "nobbler".

But every one wanted to be thought a man, and up to all kinds of wickedness, so we used to make it a point of drinking our nobbler, and sometimes treating the others twice, if we had cash.

Carr had then to confess that the bottle aforesaid contained a nobbler some 250 pounds worth for himself.

Charley Napier Hotel, when he can get his nobbler near-handy, and thereby give a lift to Pat or Scotty.

She had been startled nearly out of her wits by the Professor suddenly appearing at his bedroom door and calling upon her to have a stiff nobbler of whisky hot sent up to his room.

When I had given him a stiff nobbler of brandy to stop the chattering of his teeth, I asked him how he came to be so far from shore.

Without asking permission I went across to them and poured out a stiff nobbler for him.

Kooya, and grudged himself a pipe or a nobbler that he might lay by to make a lady of you.

Her head was aching, throbbing, and there was her stepmother nodding and beckoning to her to pour out a nobbler for the sergeant, and to attend to the other men waiting round.

Then young Langdon, who had his own ideas of what was the best thing to be done in an emergency, poured out a nobbler, filled it up with water, and pushed it across the table to him.

Bottrell will give him a last nobbler and show him the door after breakfast.

I was sitting on deck with some of the fellows who were going into the American ambulance service with me, my Airedale, Crown Prince Nobbler, asleep at my feet, when the first blast of the whistle shattered the peace and security of the ship.

I was cold myself, though I had almost forgotten it until Nobbler moved and I felt a new sensation of cold along my leg against which he had lain, and suddenly realized that in that one spot I had been warm.

A government cart was, of course, ready in the gully below, and in less than five minutes the whole stock of grog, some two hundred pounds sterling worth, or five hundred pounds worth in nobblers, was carted up to the Camp, before the teeth of some hundreds of diggers, who had now collected round about.

A fellow was selling nobblers out of a keg of brandy hanging from his neck.

So we sat down and had one or two nobblers, till I could see that he was as drunk as an owl.