Meanings
adjective
- obsoleteSore from extensive walking.
In the afternoon black Jackson caught them up, his mount surbated and all but blown.
1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter VIII, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC1 more example
VVhen you finde your Horſe to be Surbated, preſently clap into each of his fore-feete tvvo nevv layd Egges, and cruſh them therein, then upon the top of them lay good ſtore of Covv-dung, thus ſtop him, and in foure houres he vvill recover.
1630, [Gervase] Markham, “How to Helpe the Surbating, or Soreness in the Feete”, in Markhams Faithfull Farrier. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes for Michael Sparke Iunior, […], published 1638, →OCLC, page 101
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of surbate
Origin
. Compare French solbatu, Italian sobattuto.
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