surbed
English
Verb
surbed (third-person singular simple present surbeds, present participle surbedding, simple past and past participle surbedded)
- (transitive) 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.
- 1728, John Houghton, A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade (page 291)
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