Surbed vs Surfed - What's the difference?
surbed | surfed |
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)
* 1836 , Gilbert White, The natural history of Selborne (page 9)
* 1997 , Derek Lovejoy Partnership, Spon's landscape handbook (page 165)
(surf)
Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
* 1883 ,
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
* {{quote-book
, page=12
, year=1900
, author=Joseph Grinnell
, title=Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska
* {{quote-book
, page=248
, year=1941
, author=Raymond Russell Camp
, title=Fishing the Surf
* {{quote-book
, page=181
, year=1963
, author=Vlad Evanoff
, title=Spin Fishing
(UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.
To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
To browse the Internet.
As verbs the difference between surbed and surfed
is that surbed is to set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry while surfed is past tense of surf.surbed
English
Verb
- Do they dip or lye in piano horizontis''? Whether better ''surbedded'' , in ''work , or laid as they grew in the bed?
- It is a freestone, cutting in all directions; yet has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded .
- 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 .
surfed
English
Verb
(head)surf
English
(wikipedia surf)Noun
(-)- ...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...
- 'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.
citation, passage=It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf .}}
citation, passage=In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.}}
citation, passage=Snook are found in rivers, canals, inlets and along the surf , especially around sand bars, tidal rips, jetties, bridges and piers.}}