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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

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.]

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.

To harass; to fatigue.

[Obs.]

Clarendon.

Verb.

[either L. sub and battere, or solea, sole, and battere, to beat the sole or hoof.]

To bruise or batter the feet by travel.

Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet.

To harass; to fatigue.