Crossword-Solution: COMB
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comb | n. | An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. |
| Comb | n. | An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb. |
| Comb | n. | A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. |
| Comb | n. | The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. |
| Comb | n. | A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. |
| Comb | n. | A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. |
| Comb | n. | The notched scale of a wire micrometer. |
| Comb | n. | The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. |
| Comb | n. | The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red. |
| Comb | n. | One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. |
| Comb | n. | The curling crest of a wave. |
| Comb | n. | The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. |
| Comb | n. | The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. |
| Comb | v. t. | To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing. |
| Comb | n. | To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. |
| Comb | n. | Alt. of Combe |
| Comb | n. | A dry measure. See Coomb. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COMB | anagram | BCOM, BMOC |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with COMB (5)
The bird entreated earnestly for his life: “What would you do without me when next you spread your nets? Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?” The Birdcatcher spared his life, and determined to pick out a fine young Cock just attaining to his comb.
Her brown hair was waved in front and done up behind in a great twist, held by a tortoiseshell comb with gold filigree.
Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widow’s, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be forever bothering over a book, and have old Miss Watson pecking at you all the time.
The impression of the whole scene was that of a spot where no human foot had left its print for many preceding days,—probably not since Phœbe’s departure,—for she saw a side-comb of her own under the table of the arbor, where it must have fallen on the last afternoon when she and Clifford sat there.
Wherefore may God have you in his keeping.—Signed by us upon the eve of St Withold’s day, under the great trysting oak in the Hart-hill Walk, the above being written by a holy man, Clerk to God, our Lady, and St Dunstan, in the Chapel of Copmanhurst.” At the bottom of this document was scrawled, in the first place, a rude sketch of a cock’s head and comb, with a legend expressing this hieroglyphic to be the sign-manual of Wamba, son of Witless.
Quotes with COMB (3)
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like hon…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 315 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).