surbate

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  1. To overthrow. And Agravain hadde so chaced and Gaheries xx Saisnes that thei surbated on Pignoras, that com with an hundred Saisnes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 531.
  2. To make (the soles) sore by walking; bruise or batter by travel. Thy right eye 'gins to leap for vaine delight, And surbeate toes to tickle at the sight. Bp. Hall, Satires, V. ii. 20. I am sorely surbated with hoofing already tho', and so crupper-crampt with our hard lodging, and so bumfidled with the straw, that … Brome, Jovial Crew, iii. The ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated. Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 7, 1666.

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  1. from Middle English surbaten, from Old French surbatre, overthrow, from sur-, over, + batre, beat: see bate, batter.
  2. Also surbeat; early modern English also surbet, surbote; prob. corrupted (simulating surbate) from French solbatu, with the sole of the foot bruised (later solbature, a bruise on a horse's foot), from sole, sole (see sole), + battu, Old French batu, past participle of battre, beat: see beat, bate.
 

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