nobbling

The track's under a glass shield to stop you nobbling the horses.

Is this the version of the Tom Hanks movie where Captain Sully Sullenberger spends the first act nobbling the engines?

Perhaps because the scheme is yet another way in which airlines are nobbling serendipity.

I seem to remember Iceland winning after nobbling Zaire's Pelé-like talisman, who played in bare feet.

By nobbling Flood, South Africa removed England's most experienced player from the match.