gobbet

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Grossly, the stones were mainly grainy and gobbet-shaped

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  1. noun A piece or chunk, especially of raw meat.
  2. noun A bit or morsel: a diary containing gobbets of useful information.
  3. noun A small amount of liquid; a drop.

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  • When that parathyroid turned out to be healthy, he started looking on the left, and he peered and probed for the better part of an hour - or the length of an entire Aimee Mann album on the iPod - before finally extracting a brownish, pea-size gobbet. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • Grossly, the stones were mainly grainy and gobbet-shaped —  New England Journal of Medicine
  • Our table is said to be such as would weary or revolt any but gobbet-bolting carnivores. —  The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
  • She used those very words, without a blink, and Pignaver swallowed the flattery as a dog bolts a gobbet of meat. —  Stradella
  • And make a joint but a gobbet.p. 343 _Whitlock. —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
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  1. Middle English gobet, from Old French, diminutive of gobe, mouthful; see gob1.

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  1. from Middle English gobette, gobet, a small piece, a lump, fragment, from Old French gobet, goubet, F. gobet, a morsel of food, diminutive of OF. gob, a gulp, gobbet, from gober, gulp, devour, feed greedily; of Celtic origin: see gob. Cf. jobbet, a dial, assibilated form of gobbet.
  2. from gobbet, n.
 

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