What is to bite or nibble. [Obs.] Horses will knabble at walls, and rats gnaw iron. Sir T. Browne called?
knabble — To bite or nibble. [Obs.] Horses will knabble at walls, and rats gnaw iron. Sir T. Browne. (Webster's 1913.)
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