Knabbed vs Nabbed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between knabbed and nabbed

is that knabbed is past tense of knab while nabbed is past tense of nab.

(head)

(knab)

(colloquial) To nab or steal.

(obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

(Webster 1913)

(head)

(nab)

(nabb)

To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive

To grab or snatch something

* (To arrest a criminal or fugitive) nick, bust

* nabber * kidnap

Compare knap, knop, knob.

(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)