verb transitive

săburro

2nd PP săburrāre · 3rd PP săburrātum · conj. 1st

to fill; lade with ballast; to ballast

perf., ātum, 1, v. a. id., to fill or lade with ballast, to ballast (rare).

to ballast one •

Lit.: sese harenā (echini), Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 361.—Mid., to ballast one's self: grues sublatis lapillis ad moderatam gravitatem saburrantur, Sol. 10.—

we are stuffed full; crammed full; N. cr by extension •

Transf.: ubi saburratae sumus, we are stuffed full, crammed full, comic. for saturatae, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 2; so, too, perh. sanguis, i. e. of a drunken person, Arn. 5, 12 Orell. N. cr.

Perseus ID: n42139 Key: saburro