comb

• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge
• any of several tools for straightening fibers
• ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
• the act of drawing a comb through hair
• straighten with a comb
• search thoroughly
• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
• 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 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
• 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
• The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked
• To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb
• To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave
• A dry measure

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