gobbets

Noun

gobbet (plural gobbets)

1. A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.
   • 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.1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […]...
2. A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat.
   • The gobbet – the largest piece of meat served in hash or soup – was about the size of a man's thumb.1875, John Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about the Table, volume I, page 77
3. An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination.
   • 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.1990, Frances Blow, “Seeking patterns, making meanings: Using computerised sources in teaching history in secondary schools”, in Evan Mawdsley, editor, History and Computing, volume III

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