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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Surbedded

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Surbedding

[Pref.

sur-

bed

To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.

It . . . has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be

surbedded

Gilbert White.

Verb.

[sur and bed.] To set edgewise, as a stone; that is in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.