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Same as Goaf.

A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.

A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. Spenser. [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets. Wyclif.

In pieces. [Obs.] Huloet.

The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

See Gobbet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. -- n.

ing vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle. We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned. Denham.

mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.

A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.

One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.