nebbed

Updated: June 4, 2025

I remember when pa was first in the elephant corral, the keeper forgot to tell the big elephant who pa was, and when the keeper raised up one foot of the elephant and examined a corn, pa went up and pinched a bunch on the elephant's leg and said to the keeper: "That looks to me like a spavin," and he nebbed it hard.

George W. (George Wilbur) Peck - Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus