surbed

English

Etymology

sur- +‎ bed

Verb

surbed (third-person singular simple present surbeds, present participle surbedding, simple past and past participle surbedded)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• rebuds, redubs