Meaning of surbate | Babel Free

Definitions

To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.

obsolete

Examples

“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 […]”

“SURBATING; a Diſtemper in a Horſe, vvho is ſaid to be ſurbated, vvhen the Sole is vvorn, bruiſed or ſpoiled by travelling vvithout Shoes, or vvith ill ſhoeing: […] take Frankincenſe, and rolling it in a little fine Cotton VVool or Bombaſt, vvith a hot Iron melt it into the Foot betvvixt the Shoe and the Toe, until the Orifice, vvhere the Blood vvas taken avvay, is fill'd up; […]”

CEFR level