Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of using a comb.
- noun The process of carding wool. See
card , transitive verb, and carding-machine. - noun The process of hackling flax.
- noun Graining on wood.
- noun That which is removed by combing or carding: generally in the plural: as, the combings of wool or hair.
- noun Hair combed over a bald part of the head.
- noun Same as
coaming .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs.
- noun That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.
- noun Hair arranged to be worn on the head.
- noun (Naut.) See
Coamings . - noun (Textile Manuf.) a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under
Carding .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
comb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of drawing a comb through hair
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Examples
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This is the second process of combing, and is called _combing_.
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Feeling myself more fevered than hungry, I determined on spending the time in combing my hair and washing my face and hands with vinegar.
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Combing wools are so called because they are prepared for spinning [2] into yarn by the process of "combing" -- that is, the fibers are made to lie parallel with one another preparatory to being spun into thread.
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They clip from six to seven pounds of wool, suitable for combing, which is longer than South Down wool, but less fine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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They are all obtained in the process of combing, that is, the process which separates the long from the short fibers; the former are known as the "top," and are used in worsted and in the production of mohair and alpaca yarns; while the latter are used to advantage in the production of many different kinds of woolen fabrics.
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The combing is the process of arranging the fibers of wool, mohair, cotton, linen, into a parallel condition, preparatory to spinning into a smooth, even and regular yarn.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Natroba™ is a novel therapy that does not require nit combing, which is very tedious and time consuming.
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DICAPac, a waterproof case and word combing Dica and Pac (pack), is a product of DICAPac Inc., which first seeks the safety of digital equipment.
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DICAPac, a waterproof case and word combing Dica and Pac (pack), is a product of DICAPac Inc., which first seeks the safety of digital equipment.
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