comb

A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.

A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.

A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.

An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.

The top part of a gun’s stock.

The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.

The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.

A toothed tool 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.

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.

The curling crest of a wave; a comber.

A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.

A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.

A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.

(especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.

“I need to comb my hair before we leave the house”

To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

“Police combed the field for evidence after the assault”

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

(abbreviation) Combination.

A valley, often wooded and often with no river

A cirque.