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马梳;
用马梳梳;
cur·ry·comb
kuhr i kom
currycombs, currycombing, currycombed
The first known use of currycomb was in 1573
curvet1 of 2noun
a leap of a horse in which first the forelegs and then the hind are raised so that for an instant all the legs are in the air
curvet2 of 2verb
to make a curvet
caper entry 2, prance
curtainnoun
a piece of material (as cloth) hung up to darken, hide, divide, or decorate
the opening or closing of the curtain in front of the stage of a theater
something that covers, hides, or separates like a curtain
cursedadjective
being under or deserving a curse
currycombnoun
a comb with rows of metallic teeth or ridges used to curry horses
1 Roswell threw down the currycomb with an impatient exclamation, and returned to the house.
2 Especially in the winter, when she stood long hours in the barn with her neck in a stanchion, did the Muley Cow enjoy Johnnie's attentions with currycomb and brush.
3 Look at his back, I say; it seems made to be patted and currycombed like a horse's.
4 "Get your currycomb, and we'll make a wager of it," replied Robin, unslinging his gittern, while some of the old sailors crowded round the challenger, and voted it a fair challenge.
5 Farrish, in a manner that showed a certain reluctance, put up the currycomb with which he had been grooming the sorrels, and started toward the rear door.
6 He drank and apparently relished the murky water of mud-pools and needed but little attention with the currycomb and brush.
7 "Ah!" he said, after he had noted that my tongue looked like a currycomb.
8 He had grown up to the scrape and whiffle of the currycomb, breathing ammonia, cracking the skin of his infantile knuckles with harness soap.
9 One of them threw down the currycomb and brush and ran immediately to Ruth as she appeared at the bars.
10 I opens the window so's to get in some air that ain't been strained and currycombed and scented with violets, and then we starts to throw the shot bag around.
11 Happy I, would fortune doom me But to have me near thy bed, Stroke thee, pat thee, currycomb thee, And hunt o'er thy knightly head.
12 Upon nails in the rafters of the ceiling swing buckets and dippers and lamps, currycombs and brushes.
13 To groom ( a horse ) with a currycomb.
梳刷,刷拭用马梳刷拭 ( 马 )
14 And he continued to currycomb a bay horse.
15 Mitchell was at the barn, among the horses, and there came the occasional and almost rhythmic tap, tap, tap of his currycomb against the thin wall.
16 He'd pretended that the bran, wool, currycombs, aprons, and the horse covers and blankets had been lost; and when there was nothing else left to steal, he took the shoes right off the horses' hooves.
17 Mr. Shaw's father was originally a working maker of currycombs, an article, before his day, entirely made by hand.
18 Billy stuck the brush and currycomb together and laid them on the rail, and went up to breakfast.
19 And b after m is silent, as lamb, jamb, climb, tomb, womb, numb, thumb, crumb, dumb, plumb, comb, hecatomb, catacomb, currycomb, coxcomb, succumb.
20 To dream of a currycomb foretells that great labors must be endured in order to obtain wealth and comfort.
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