gobet

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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 Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published , →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

“gobet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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