Now dial. [Of obscure origin; cf. LAPPET.] a. A flap or lobe. b. A fragment, rag, jag.
1627. Hakewill, Apol. (1630), Pref. 3. One who lookes onely upon some libbet, or end of a peece of Arras. Ibid., 418. The tender libbets of their eares.
1844. W. Barnes, Poems Rur. Life, Gloss., Libbets, rags in strips.
1893. Wiltsh. Gloss., Libbet, a fragment. ‘All in a libbet,’ or ‘all in libbets and jibbets,’ torn to rags. Also Lippet.
