| 单词 | to cut into gobbets |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut (also chop, hack, etc.) into (also in) gobbets b. spec. A piece of flesh or raw meat; frequently in to cut (also chop, hack, etc.) into (also in) gobbets. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > specifically of raw flesh gobbet1381 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 63 Haris in talbotays schul be hewe in gobbettys al raw and sodyn with al the blod. a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 85 Thys lomb toke vp cryst Ihesus..Alle yn smale gobettes he hyt kytte. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 206 The prestes..smyten all the body of the dede man in peces... And þan the preestes casten the gobettes of the flesch [etc.]. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xi. 32 Mycht I nocht caucht and rent in pecis his cors, Syne swak the gobbatis in the sey. ?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe xii. f. lxviii Two or thre yonge cattes, well chopped in small gobbettes. 1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. ii. 50 Put in good thick gobbets of well fed Beefe,..also like gobbets of the best Mutton. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 326 They have a meat resembling the old Maza, which was meal mixed with water and oyl, with gobbets of flesh. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 22 (heading) To stew beef gobbets. 1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. I. xxii. 207 To the Boards you shall tye great Gobbets of Dog's Flesh cut from the Bones, according to the Number you feed. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 235 Small red bodies, little bundles of red tissue, mere gobbets of venison. 1862 H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve i. ii, in Wks. (1864) III. 114 We'd slice them into gobbets And fling their flesh to the dogs. 1926 Spectator 17 Apr. 708/1 Hundreds of savages hacked into gobbets the reeking flesh of an elephant. 2009 V. R. Rumble Soup 33 Rich meat soups were made of brawns (pieces of flesh) cut into gobbets. < as lemmas |
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