Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To comb.
- noun A comb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To comb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
comb . - verb Obsolete form of
comb .
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Examples
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Otherwise her only occupation would have been to kemb her golden hair, or perhaps, like
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick
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The men go naked; the women take bulrushes, and kemb them after the manner of hemp, and thereof make their loose garments, which being knit about their middles, hang down about their hips, having also about their shoulders a skin of deer, with the hair upon it.
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But if it be carded with covetise, as clothers kemb their wool;
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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But if it be carded with covetise, as clothers kemb their wool;
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
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