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▪ I. goblet1|ˈgɒblɪt|
Forms: 4 gobelet, goblot, 5–6 goblett, 6 gublett-, gobbelett-, 7 gobblet, 5– goblet.
[a. OF. gobelet (in 13th c. gubulet), f. gobel, gobeau cup, of uncertain origin.]
1. A drinking-cup of metal or glass, properly bowl-shaped and without handles, sometimes mounted on a foot and fitted with a cover. In later use, a general term for a wine-cup. Now only arch.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1277 Þe gredirne & þe goblotes garnyst of syluer. a1400Morte Arth. 207 The kyngez cope-borde was closed in silver, In grete goblettez overgylte. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 422 Item, for sawdy⁓ring and gyltyng of a goblett, with the kever, price iiij.s. 1552Bury Wills (Camden) 144 Thre gilt goblettes wt the cover. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iv. 26, I doe thinke him as concaue as a couered goblet, or a Worme-eaten nut. 1682Milton Hist. Mosc. Wks. 1738 II. 143 A Cupboard of huge and massy goblets, and other Vessels of gold and silver. 1703Pope Thebais 634 The banquet done, the monarch gives the sign To fill the goblet high with sparkling wine. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 366 A large round porphyry vessel..It consists of one piece, and resembles a shallow goblet. 1814Scott Wav. xi, The Baron..produced a golden goblet of a singular and antique appearance, moulded into the shape of a rampant bear. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 449 He..filled a goblet to the brim with wine. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. vi. 108 Give us a goblet of the well known juice!
†b. (See quot.) Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 271/2 A kind of a Drinking Cup..made of the small top of a Bull or Cows Horn, the Tip end Reversed..It is by some Gentlemens Buttlers termed a Souce, or Gogles, or Goblet.
c. A glass with a foot and stem, as distinguished from a tumbler.
Marked ‘U.S.’ in the Century Dict.; but current in England in tradesmen's price lists.
d. transf. A goblet-shaped part of a flower.
1851Beck's Florist July 163 The Cephalote, from the Australian bogs, whose delicate goblets reared their richly-carved and many-tinted crests above their bed of moss.
†2. A conical cup or thimble used by conjurers. (So F. gobelet.) Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 280 The iugler carieth clenly vnder his gublettis. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 153/1 Excepte ye thinke the iugler blow his galles through the gobletes bottom. 1552Huloet, Goblet or boxe for a iugler, acetabulum. 1692Quick Synodicon I. 194 To that Article of Players and Mummers, shall be added Juglers, Players of Hocus-pocus, Tricks of Goblets, Puppet-playing [etc.].
3. Sc. A kind of deep saucepan with bulging sides and a straight handle.
†4. Some kind of embossed ornament on a gauntlet. Obs.—1
a1400Morte Arth. 913 His gloues..grauene at þe hemmez, With graynez and gobelets, glorious of hewe.
5. attrib. and Comb., as goblet-boy, goblet-glass, goblet-pledge; goblet-shaped adj.; goblet-cell, ‘an epithelial cell of crateriform shape’ (Cent. Dict.); goblet-office nonce-wd. [= F. le gobelet] (see quot.).
1800Moore Anacreon xxxii. 6 Young Love shall be my *goblet-boy.
1878Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 525 These structures which are also known as gustatory *goblet-cells.
1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi W. 125 Here's *goblet-glass, to take in with your wine The very sun its grapes were ripened under.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xviii, Bring them to the *goblet-office, which is the Buttery, and there make them drink.
1850Mrs. Browning Wine of Cyprus 6 The Cyprus..I am sipping..At the hour of *goblet-pledge.
1854Mayne Expos. Lex., *Goblet-shaped. See Scyphiform. 1866Treas. Bot., Goblet-shaped, the same as Crateriform. 1878Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 524 A number of goblet-shaped organs.
Hence ˈgobleted a. = goblet-shaped; † ˈgobleter, a cup-bearer; ˈgobletful, the quantity required to fill a goblet.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Formul. Y iij, Admynyste a gobletful whan he goth to bed, and he shal slepe. 1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 237 Gobletters and Butlers to Apollo. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xix. (ed. 12) 110 Moss was in abundant life, some feathering, and some gobleted. 1883C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 182/2 A goblet⁓ful of the noctilucæ produces light sufficient to read by at a distance of two feet.
Add:[1.] e. Cookery. On a liquidizer: the cup- or jug-shaped receptacle into which food to be processed is placed.
1970Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. 1970–71 Autumn/Winter 840/2 Fitted with stainless steel cutting blades and 1½ pint capacity plastic goblet. 1980Freemans Catal. Spring/Summer 692 To use as a blender, stand mixer upright and slot in the 1 pint goblet. 1982C. Handslip Sainsbury Bk. Mixer & Blender Cooking 7 The blender is best cleaned by placing a little hot water in the goblet with a drop of liquid detergent. 1990Ideal Home Dec. 99/3 Liquidiser goblets are available as attachments to processors,..allowing larger quantities to be liquidised at higher speeds and with less mess than in the processor bowl.
▪ II. † goblet2 Obs.
= gobbet n. (possibly a misprint).
1530Palsgr. 225/2 Goblet, a lumpe or a pece, monceau. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. v. 101 Sighing often betwixt the goblets, for the inability of his Mandibles. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 293/2 The Goblet or Country Pye, is made of large pieces of Flesh..which large or square pieces, are termed Goblets. 1742Perry in Phil. Trans. XLII. 48 It..seem'd as if Goblets of Fat were fluctuating in it. |