Citations:umbeset

Verb: (obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) to surround, beset

 * 1828, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England, volume 1, Ballantine, page 23–24:
 * James Grant hearing the noiſe, and ſeeing him ſo umbeſet, that he was neither able to keep that litle houſe, nor yet to win away, reſolved to keep the door with the other two, as long as they might, and ſhott out arrows at two windows,
 * 1969, Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547-1603, H. M. General Register House, page 494:
 * The Earl of Orkney coming hither by sea “umbeset” a pirate of Dunkirk and brought her prisoner to the “heavening” port of Leith,

Adjective: which surrounds (?)

 * 2012, Kalpish Ratna, Once Upon A Hill, Harper Collins, page 79:
 * There is an umbeset moat marked off around the hill— not a dugout, just a strip of cement circling the base.