gist

The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.

I don't wanna belabor my point; I'm sure you get the gist.

Should they live and build their church in the American wilderness, their worst dangers would rise in and among themselves rather than outside. That was the gist of the lesson from their pastor and "wellwiller" John Robinson.

The essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen.

[T]heſe charges, of a traiterous or felonious intent, are the points and very giſt of the indictment, and muſt be anſvvered directly, by the general negative, not guilty; […]

[H]e is guilty of a dereliction of opinions that are true and laudable. This is the great giſt of the charge againſt him.

Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this.

A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.

For a simple illustration of the issue, take a look at this gist.

Every gist created is a tiny repository. You can update gists and see the history using git log. You can download gists, hack on the repository, […]

To extract and present the main ideas or substance, or the most essential parts of (a document, piece of writing, etc.); to abridge, to summarize.

There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, and the pupils of the day take these axioms or principles, and accept them as facts, and apply them to this, that or the other individual case.

To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.

A stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest.

Theſe Quailes have their ſet giſts, to vvit, ordinarie reſting and baiting places.

But the Conſul after that he had intelligence that Perſeus had croſſed over to Samothracia, departed from Pella, and at the fourth giſt and journey that he made, came to Amphipolis.