currycomb

See also: curry-comb and curry comb

English

Alternative forms

• curry-comb
• curry comb

Etymology

From curry +‎ comb.

Pronunciation

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Noun

currycomb (plural currycombs)

a currycomb

1. 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

• Afrikaans: roskam
• Azerbaijani: qaşov
• Catalan: estríjol (ca) m
• Dutch: roskam (nl)
• Esperanto: striglilo
• Finnish: suka (fi)
• French: étrille (fr) f
• German: Striegel (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ψήκτρα f (psḗktra)

• Ido: striglo (io)
• Italian: striglia (it) f
• Luxembourgish: Strigel m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strigle (no) m

  Nynorsk: strigle f

• Ottoman Turkish: قاشاغی (kaşağı), فرجول (fircevl)
• Persian: قشو (fa) (qašow)
• Plautdietsch: Schrop f
• Polish: zgrzebło (pl) n
• Romanian: țesală (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: česalo n
• Spanish: almohaza (es)
• Tagalog: almohasa
• Turkish: kaşağı (tr)
• Welsh: ysgrafell f

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To groom using such a comb.

Translations

to groom

• Catalan: estrijolar (ca)
• Finnish: sukia (fi)
• German: striegeln (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strigle (no)

  Nynorsk: strigla, strigle

• Ottoman Turkish: قاشاغیلامق (kaşağılamak)
• Turkish: kaşağılamak (tr)