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▪ I. libbet1 Now dial.|ˈlɪbɪt|
Also 6 lyb(b)et, (also 9) libbat, 7 libbit, 20 livett.
[Cf. OF. libe, libbe block of stone.]
A billet of wood; a stick to beat or throw at anything with.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 210 Leaue that woorde or Ile baste ye with a libet. 1567Harman Caveat 26 A longe lastinge lybbet. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xxi. (1602) 99 With that he tooke a Libbat vp, and beateth out his braines. 1589Ibid. Pr. Add. (1602) 345 Libbats newly snatched from burning. 1736Lewis Isle of Tenet 37, I took up a Libbit that lay by the Sole, and hove it at the Hagister. 1847Halliwell, Libbet, a billet of wood; a staff, stick, or club. South. 1908G. Sanger 70 Yrs. a Showman xiv. 48 We could see the big sticks—‘livetts’ they were termed—hurtling towards..the prizes.
▪ II. libbet2 Now dial.|ˈlɪbɪt|
[Of obscure origin; cf. lappet.]
a. A flap or lobe.
b. A fragment, rag, jag.
1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) Pref. 3 One who lookes onely upon some libbet, or end of a peece of Arras. Ibid. 418 The tender libbets of their eares. 1844W. Barnes Poems Rur. Life Gloss., Libbets, rags in strips. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Libbet, a fragment. ‘All in a libbet’, or ‘all in libbets and jibbets’, torn to rags. Also Lippet. |