Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
gobbet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
gobbet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
gobbet .
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Examples
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If any manne bite a gobet, greater than he is able to swallowe, so that he be constrained to put it out of his mouth againe: thei by and by make a hole vndre the tent, and ther drawe him out, and cruelly slea him.
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And he went to Saul and cut off a gobet of his mantle and kept it.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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A gobet of þo self he sayes w {i} t {h} - all {e}.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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If any manne bite a gobet, greater than he is able to swallowe, so that he be constrained to put it out of his mouth againe: thei by and by make a hole vndre the tent, and ther drawe him out, and cruelly slea him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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