Usually means: Edge between street and sidewalk.
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  1. kerb: Merriam-Webster
  2. kerb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. kerb: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kerb: Vocabulary.com
  5. Kerb, kerb: Wordnik
  6. kerb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. kerb: Wiktionary
  8. kerb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. kerb: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Kerb, kerb: Dictionary.com
  11. kerb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. kerb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Kerb (archaeology), Kerb (disambiguation), Kerb (road), Kerb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Kerb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. kerb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. kerb: Rhymezone
  17. kerb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. kerb: FreeDictionary.org
  19. kerb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. kerb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. kerb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. kerb: Legal dictionary

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  1. kerb: Encyclopedia

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  1. kerb: Medical dictionary

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  1. kerb: Idioms

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kerb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Kerb: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (British, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
noun:  A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
verb:  (British, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
verb:  To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.
noun:  Alternative form of curb (“raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.”) [(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)]

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