Sunday's Word Is Nobble

Good Sunday Morning! The word for today is Nobble:

Nobble (verb)
Pronunciation: [nahb-êl]
Definition: To disable (especially a racehorse) by drugging or laming; to win someone over; to steal; to kidnap; most broadly, to outdo or win someone to one's side by devious means.
Usage: A colorful word from a colorful lexical world: British and Australian horseracing punters blame nobbling for unexpected results that go against the odds. Someone who wins a competition, argument, or any contest through underhanded means would be a nobbler, the noun form of today's word.
Suggested Usage: For our Aussie friends: "When a boilover and a no-hoper that couldn't run a drum beats a dead bird, causing you to lose a gorilla and look a drongo, someone nobbled your horse." Some time ago, Yorkshire Television produced an entire detective mystery series about an ex-jockey who solves cases of nobbling mixed with murder—a truly British subgenre if ever there was one. In everyday use, we might say, "Geoff took the first swing at a nail when the head of his new hammer flew off. He was nobbled at the hardware store."
Etymology: The origins of today's word are officially unknown. It's close enough to "hobble," an acceptable means of limiting a horse's gait with a rope to suggest a relation. Perhaps a combination of "knackered," a lower register word for "tired out, exhausted" and "hobble," to denote that a horse has been done in completely.

Have A Relaxing Sunday.