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Webster 1913 Edition
Surbate
Sur-bate′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Surbated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Surbating
.] [F.
solbatu
, p. p., bruised (said of a horse’s foot); sole
a sole (of a horse's foot) + battu
, p. p. of battre
to beat.] 1.
To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
[Obs.]
Lest they their fins should bruise, and
Their tender feet upon the stony ground.
surbate
soreTheir tender feet upon the stony ground.
Spenser.
Chalky land
surbates
and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.
2.
To harass; to fatigue.
[Obs.]
Clarendon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Surbate
SURBA'TE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bruise or batter the feet by travel. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet.
2.
To harass; to fatigue.Definition 2024
surbate
surbate
English
Verb
surbate (third-person singular simple present surbates, present participle surbating, simple past and past participle surbated)
- (obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
- they [...] let their temed fishes softly swim / Along the margent of the fomy shore, / Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate sore / Their tender feet vpon the stony ground [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv: