Meaning of gobbet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.
2. A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat.
3. An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination.

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Examples

“BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets.”

“He balked only when the priest scooped from the pot some of the medicine the woman had prepared and presented it for him to eat⟳. The man shouted and Justin obediently opened his mouth to receive⟳ the sticky gobbet of paste.”

“The gobbet – the largest piece of meat served in hash or soup – was about the size of a man's thumb.”

“This bottom was littered with great gobbets of flesh, most of which was in the last⟳ state of putridity.”

“This new status for primary source material in schools was not a permeation down of the gobbet tradition from undergraduate courses. The gobbet functioned as a prompt to an exposition on the context of the extract — the period, the events, the people and ideas referred to in the gobbet.”

“Gobbets are designed to assess your ability to comment⟳ critically upon source material, whether a text or an object. Each gobbet will have⟳ at least one specific point⟳ that should be addressed/analysed, so always consider⟳ why a particular passage/image has been chosen.”

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