Lexicographical Neighbors of Surbates
Literary usage of Surbates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine by John Lawrence (1809)
"... in Huntingdonshire, which will, of any work, do ahnost as much as a horse."
Chalky land surbates and spoils the feet of oxen more than any other soil. ..."
2. Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick by Rosaline Orme Masson (1876)
"... Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbates sore Their tender feet upon
the stony ground : And, coming to the place where all in gore And cruddy ..."
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