comb

1. n. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. Source: opted

2. n. An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb. Source: opted

3. n. A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. Source: opted

4. n. The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. Source: opted

5. n. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. Source: opted

6. n. A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. Source: opted

7. n. The notched scale of a wire micrometer. Source: opted

8. n. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. Source: opted

9. 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. Source: opted

10. n. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. Source: opted

11. n. The curling crest of a wave. Source: opted

12. n. The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. Source: opted

13. n. The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

15. n. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. Source: opted

16. n. Alt. of Combe Source: opted

17. n. A dry measure. See Coomb. Source: opted

Thesaurus links

From the definitions

Explore more