Crossword-Solution: CURRYCOMB
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Currycomb | n. | A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse. |
| Currycomb | v. t. | To comb with a currycomb. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “CURRYCOMB”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hostler's need | 1 answer |
| Grooming tool | 6 answers |
| A SQUARE COMB WITH ROWS OF SMALL TEETH | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURRYCOMB (5)
The groom touched his forehead, dropped the currycomb and brush, and turned back into the stable to fetch saddle and bridle.
The Swede was scraping his sides with the currycomb, and the Big Gray, accustomed to Cully's gentler touch, was resenting the familiarity by biting at the tippet wound about the neck of the young man.
Clarke on Tongue.” These works I cut up thoroughly with a currycomb, and then, throwing the shreds into a sieve, sifted out carefully all that might be thought decent, (a mere trifle); reserving the hard phrases, which I threw into a large tin pepper-castor with longitudinal holes, so that an entire sentence could get through without material injury.
KEEPING STRAIGHT AHEAD, I entered the forest on one side of the meadow (with quite a heroic sense of adventure), but scraped my shin on a fallen log and ran into a tree with bark on it that felt like a gigantic currycomb--and stopped! Up to this point I think I was still partly asleep.
Noo, we'll see hoo weel he can leuk.” In a shamefaced way he fetched from a tool-box a long-forgotten, strong little currycomb, such as is used on shaggy Shetland ponies.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1975).