gobet
Middle English
Noun
gobet
- gobbet
- 1388, John Wycliffe, The New Testament in English, Mark 5:4:
- […] and he hadde broke the chaynes, and hadde broke the stockis to smale gobetis, and no man myyte make hym tame.
- […] and he had broken the chains, and had broken the stocks into small pieces, and no man might make him tame.
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 10, verso:
- He seyde he hadde ǁ a gobet of the seyl / That Seint Peter hadde ǁ […]
- He said he had a bit of the sail that Saint Peter had […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gobet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)