SURBATE

Etymology

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.

Anagrams

• Buteras, Stauber, Straube, arbutes, surbeat

Source: Wiktionary

Sur*bate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surbated; p. pr. & vb. n. Surbating.] Etym: [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 surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground. Spenser. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.

2. To harass; to fatigue. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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