v. rare. [An anglicized adaptation of F. culbuter, f. cul back, fundament + buter to butt, to strike abruptly.] To overturn backwards, throw any one on his back; to drive back in disorder.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxvi. 219. Not … permitted to culbut.
1832. Blackw. Mag., XXXII. 545. The generals … had led or left them to be culbuted by the French. Ibid. (1842), LI. 630. A British battalion … driving him over hill and dale, culbuted in the most exemplary manner.
