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单词 skibbet
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skibbetn.

Forms: Middle English skybet, skibet, Middle English skebett, 1800s skibbet, skivet.
Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare skippet n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskibbet.
Now dialect.
A small box; a small compartment in a chest, etc. Also transferred.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > small box
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxxix And what is hoote and drye..is resceyued proprelich in þe skybet of þe galle.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxxix Þe skibet of the splene, þe melt.
c1500 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 25 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 De diuersis pixidibus, hampers, skebettis, et aliis locis, ut hic patet sequenter.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 51/2 Skibbet, a small covered compartment in a large chest, always near the top.
1895 ‘Q’ Wandering Heath 81 My grandfather kept his fishing lines in a little skivet under the stern~sheets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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