surbate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from surbated.
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 […]
- 1725, [Noël] Chomel, “SURBATING”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. [...] Done into English from the Second Edition, lately Printed at Paris, in Two Volumes, Folio, Written by M. Chomel: With Considerable Alterations and Improvements. [...] In Two Volumes, volume II (I–Z), London: Printed for D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 938056433:
- SURBATING; a Diſtemper in a Horſe, who is ſaid to be ſurbated, when the Sole is worn, bruiſed or ſpoiled by travelling without Shoes, or with ill ſhoeing: […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
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