ˈskibbet Now dial.
Forms: 4–5 skybet, skibet, 5 skebett, 9 skibbet, skivet.
[Of obscure origin: cf. skippet1.]
A small box; a small compartment in a chest, etc. Also transf.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxxix. (Bodl. MS.), And what is hoote and drye..is resceyued proprelich in þe skybet of þe galle. Ibid., Þe skibet of the splene, þe melt. c 1500 in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. Var. Coll. IV. 25 De diuersis pixidibus, hampers, skebettis, et aliis locis, ut hoc patet sequenter. 1880 W. Cornwall Gloss. 51/2 Skibbet, a small covered compartment in a large chest, always near the top. 1895 Quiller Couch Wandering Heath 81 My grandfather kept his fishing lines in a little skivet under the stern⁓sheets. |