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▸ noun: A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
▸ noun: A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
▸ noun: The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
▸ noun: A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
▸ noun: The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
▸ noun: The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
▸ noun: A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
▸ noun: (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
▸ noun: One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
▸ noun: A crest:
▸ noun: A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
▸ noun: (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
▸ noun: The top part of a gun’s stock.
▸ noun: A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
▸ noun: (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
▸ noun: A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
▸ noun: An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
▸ noun: The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
▸ noun: (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
▸ noun: (Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
▸ verb: (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
▸ verb: (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
▸ verb: (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
▸ verb: (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
▸ verb: (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
▸ noun: (rare) Abbreviation of combination. [The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.]
▸ noun: Alternative form of combe [A valley, often wooded and often with no river]
▸ noun: (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb [An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.]
Similar:
cockscomb,
coxcomb,
ransack,
disentangle,
comb out,
chomper,
tooth,
gnasher,
dentiscalp,
teethbrush,
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