currycomb

See also: curry-comb and curry comb

English

Alternative forms

curry-comb

Etymology

curry +‎ comb

Noun

currycomb (plural currycombs)

A comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses.
- 1889, Annual Report of the Military Department, State of Oregon (page 99)
  One hundred currycombs […] One hundred corn horsebrushes […]

Translations

a comb or brush used to groom horses

Dutch: roskam (nl)
Finnish: suka (fi)
French: étrille (fr) f
German: Striegel m
Luxembourgish: Strigel m
Persian: قشو‎‎ (fa) (qašow)

Polish: zgrzebło n
Serbo-Croatian: česalo n
Tagalog: almuhasa, almuwasa
Turkish: kaşağı (tr)
Welsh: ysgrafell f

Verb

currycomb (third-person singular simple present currycombs, present participle currycombing, simple past and past participle currycombed)

(transitive) To groom using such a comb.

Translations

to groom

Finnish: sukia (fi)

Turkish: kaşağılamak (tr)

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