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Definition of Surbet
1. v. t. Same as Surbate.
2. a. Surbated; bruised.
Definition of Surbet
1. surbate [v] - See also: surbate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surbet
Literary usage of Surbet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"6 (end), p. 15; A Cure for a Cuckold,ii. 4 (Woodroff); surbet, pp., ' A traveller
with feet surbet', Spenser, FQ ii. 2. 22. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"surbet, part. p. Weary wiih treading. ... a traveller with feete surbet, "Whom
they in equall pray ..."
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