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Surbed vs Surbet - What's the difference?

surbed | surbet |

As a verb surbed

is to set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.

As an adjective surbet is

(obsolete) surbated; bruised.

surbed

English

Verb

  • To set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
  • * 1728 , John Houghton, A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade (page 291)
    • Do they dip or lye in piano horizontis''? Whether better ''surbedded'' , in ''work , or laid as they grew in the bed?
  • * 1836 , Gilbert White, The natural history of Selborne (page 9)
    • It is a freestone, cutting in all directions; yet has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded .
  • * 1997 , Derek Lovejoy Partnership, Spon's landscape handbook (page 165)
    • 400mm wide X 200mm thick, bedded and jointed in 1:3:12 white cement:lime:sand mortar, all stones to be free of quarry sap and not laid surbedded .

    surbet

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) surbated; bruised
  • * Edmund Spenser
    • A traveller with feet surbet .
    (Webster 1913)