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Nab vs Knab - What's the difference?

nab | knab |

As verbs the difference between nab and knab

is that nab is to seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive while knab is to nab or steal.

As a noun nab

is the summit of an eminence.

As an initialism NAB

is National Australia Bank.

nab

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(nabb)
  • To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive
  • To grab or snatch something
    • Synonyms
    * (To arrest a criminal or fugitive) nick, bust
    Derived terms
    * nabber * kidnap

    Etymology 2

    Compare knap, knop, knob.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The summit of an eminence.
    • (Halliwell)
  • The cock of a gunlock.
    • (Knight)
  • (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
    • (Knight)

    Anagrams

    * * Appalachian English English transitive verbs ----

    knab

    English

    Verb

  • (colloquial) To nab or steal.
  • (obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
    (Webster 1913)