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currycomb

noun

Etymology

From curry + comb.

  1. inherited from *ǵómbʰos✻
  2. inherited from *kambaz✻
  3. inherited from *kamb✻
  4. inherited from camb
  5. inherited from comb
  6. compounded as currycomb — “curry + comb”

Definitions

  1. A comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses.

    • One hundred currycombs […] One hundred corn horsebrushes […]

  2. To groom using such a comb.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA