Meanings of nubble in English

A round nubble about 14 mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over it.

Here it is rising out of the clouds above the Nubble Lighthouse this evening.

The hooked rug-a wedding present from Rachel's grandmother long ago-pressed cold nubbles into the balls of his feet.

Nubbles at the play.

Here is one of Peter Halley's neo-geo paintings, with its acid colours and nubbled surfaces, a vicious reprise of what was by now old-time abstraction.

If you undo the two-way side zips, the bottoms lock together with "block tapey," a nubbled rubber alternative to Velcro that grabs like Bristle Blocks.