I.perf., ātum, 1, v. a. id., to fill or lade with ballast, to ballast (rare).
I. Lit.: “sese harenā (echini),” Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 361.—Mid., to ballast one's self: “grues sublatis lapillis ad moderatam gravitatem saburrantur,” Sol. 10.—
II. 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.