gobet
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
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 Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, 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 […]
References[edit]
- “gobet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.