Nubbin [noun]

He warmed the remaining half-can of salmon and whittled at his nubbin of bread.

Throwing a nubbin to the calf to catch the cow, as you say in Virginia, eh?

Not a stream, not a butte, not even a nubbin of rock varied the view.

One must rescue Richard's head; it was not that nubbin of a head which goes with the Farnese one.

The Condor stretched his broad wings and settled himself comfortably on a nubbin of sandstone.

Presently she walked into the little room, lit a nubbin of candle, and changed into her best clothes.

Chung wasn't built for times as hectic as the last few hours, and was worn to a nubbin.

Lincoln quietly said to Seward: "This is the largest shucking for so small a nubbin that I ever saw."

The low altitude of Nubbin Ridge made me sallow; there was no blood in my cheeks.

Living in quaint old "Nubbin Ridge," could not, to say the most, be called illustrious.