nip

The ball was nipping, Matt Henry and Nathan Smith relentless in their accuracy.

There was also the time Clyde woke me up by nipping my chin hard enough to leave a welt because I had not served his breakfast quickly enough.

The visitors were faced with the nipping ball and skilful Kiwis, so responded in the only way they know: aggression.

Next ball, delivered from close to the stumps, nipped just enough for Blundell to tickle.

"You've that guilt there and it lives with you every day, that if you had have opened your mouth and said something maybe it would have been nipped in the bud."