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Definition of Gobbets
1. gobbet [n] - See also: gobbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobbets
Literary usage of Gobbets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Again Meet I an infant of the house of Yoik, Into as many gobbets will I cut if,
... The diminutive whereof is gobbet; cut into gobbets, perchance from the ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1820)
"Alter they have boiled awhile, you shall put in the like gobbets of venison, red
and fallow, if you have them ; then the like gobbets of veal, kid and lamb; ..."
3. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"... them on gobbets, hew them on gobbets, chop on gobbets, hew small, dyce them,
skern them to dyce, ..."
4. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... and the swineherd laid the raw On the rich fat, which in gobbets from each
limb did he draw; And some they cast into the fire besprent with barley-meal, ..."
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