Tool for putting a part in hair

Publish date: 2024-08-27
•An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.•An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.•A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.•The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.•A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.•A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.•The notched scale of a wire micrometer.•The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.•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.•One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.•The curling crest of a wave.•The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.•The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.•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.•To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.•Alt. of Combe•A dry measure. See Coomb.

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