Gobbet

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gobbet \Gob"bet\, n. [OE. & F. gobet. See 2d {Gob}.]
     A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. --Spenser.
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           [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets. --Wyclif.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gobbet \Gob"bet\, v. t.
     To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low]
     --L'Estrange.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gobbet
       n : a lump or chunk of raw meat

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "gobbet":
     ace, atom, ball, balloon, bit, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, bubble,
     bulb, bulbil, bulblet, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop,
     crumb, cut, cutting, dab, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble,
     driblet, droplet, dwarf, ellipsoid, end, farthing, fleck, flyspeck,
     fragment, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus,
     gob, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hunk, iota, jot, knob,
     knot, little, little bit, lump, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite,
     modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, nutshell, oblate spheroid,
     orb, orbit, orblet, ounce, paring, particle, pebble, pellet, piece,
     pinch, pittance, point, prolate spheroid, rasher, rondure, scoop,
     scrap, scruple, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver,
     smidgen, smitch, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, speck,
     sphere, spheroid, spherule, splinter, spoonful, spot, stitch,
     stump, tatter, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount,
     trivia, whit