berob

From Middle English berobben; equivalent to be- +‎ rob.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈɹɒb/

berob (third-person singular simple present berobs, present participle berobbing, simple past and past participle berobbed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To rob; to plunder.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ah dearest Lord! what evil starre
     On you hath frownd, and pourd his influence bad,
     That of your selfe ye thus berobbed arre

• “berob”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Bober