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Definition: Currycomb |
CurrycombNoun1. A square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "currycomb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a currycomb foretells that great labors must be endured in order to obtain wealth and comfort. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Currycomb:a comb used especially in currying a horse. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Can be made of steel or rubber. . . the chief job is to loosen mud, sweat and dust. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Currycomb |
| Specialty definitions using "currycomb": to curry. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
currycomb | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "currycomb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kruese (scraper), griba (comb, rake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المحسة مشط للشعر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чесало (comb, horse-comb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kartáè na hřebelcování konì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strigle (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, dressing, pig scraper, to curry, to dress and to brush, to groom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roskam (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, pig scraper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قشوکردن , قشو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | étrille (curry comb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | striegel (curry comb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξύστρα για ζώα (cow comb, pig scraper), ξύστρα άλογου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | striglia (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, pig scraper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urrycombcay crista (chaplet, crest, edge, gardenbed, hummock, ridge, spine, tip, top), carda (kill-devil, teasel, teazle), pente (comb), almofaça (carding comb, cattle comb, cow comb, curry comb, pig scraper). (various references) скребница (curry-comb, dandy brush, horse-comb, scrubbing brush). (various references) češagija (dandy brush, horse-comb). (various references) almohaza (carding comb, cattle comb, curry comb). (various references) ryktskrapa. (various references) kaşağı (curry, dandy brush). (various references) скребниця (dandy brush), скребло (comb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "currycomb": currycombed, currycombing, currycombs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-m-o-r-r-u-y" | |
-3 letters: corymb, crumby. | |
-4 letters: burro, burry, corby, crumb, cruor, curry, mucor, mucro, murry, occur, rumor. | |
-5 letters: buoy, burr, bury, comb, corm, cory, croc, curb, curr, murr, orby, ruby, umbo, your. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-m-o-r-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: currycombs. | |
+2 letters: currycombed. | |
+3 letters: currycombing. | |
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