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nab

The strike plate of a door lock.
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'Reminds me of being nabbed by the devil,' returned Sikes.
We have nabbed the man who went out with him, and got him safe at Barkingham.
I was NABBED by Moss of Cursitor Street--from whose GILT AND SPLENDID PARLER I write this--the same that had me this time two years.
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