gobet

Middle English

Noun

gobet

1. 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.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• begot