nobbler (nobler)

[Also knobbler; He must drink a nobbler with Tom, and be prepared to shout for all hands at least once a day. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 243. 4. A shingler. See puddle and puddler . Sometimes spelled knobbler . nobblin (nob'lin), n. [A dial. form of * nobbling , verbal n. of nobble , r., 5.] In certain furnaces [Prov. Eng.]