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surbate


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Surbate  \Sur*bate"\,  v.  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  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.