Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nub n.2

[? dial. nub, to jog, to shake]

1. sexual intercourse.

[UK]New Canting Dict. n.p.: nub [...] coition.
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. a husband.

[UK]Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn).
[UK]Hotten Sl. Dict.